Intel Core i5-3470 vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

Core i5-3470 vs Xeon E5-2696 v2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 beats the Core i5-3470 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-3470 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i5-3470 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3470.

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. For instance, the Core i5-3470 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.