Intel Core i5-11400F vs Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3

Core i5-11400F vs Xeon E5-2666 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11400F beats the Xeon E5-2666 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2666 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-11400F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11400F. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11400F.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-11400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.