Intel Core i5-11400T vs Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2

Core i5-11400T vs Xeon E5-2697 v2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 beats the Core i5-11400T in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-11400T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-11400T has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11400T. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-11400T. Despite this, the Core i5-11400T has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-11400T CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697 v2 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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