Intel Core i5-11400H vs Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3

Core i5-11400H vs Xeon E5-2678 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 is faster than the Core i5-11400H. Despite this, the Core i5-11400H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-11400H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11400H. A Core i5-11400H CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2678 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-11400H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.