Intel Core i5-11500 vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

Core i5-11500 vs Xeon E5-2696 v2 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11500 is faster than the Xeon E5-2696 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2696 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-11500. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-11500. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11500.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-11500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.