Intel Core i5-11400H vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

Core i5-11400H vs Xeon E5-2696 v2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 beats the Core i5-11400H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-11400H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-11400H. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-11400H. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11400H.

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 i5-11400H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.