Intel Core i5-8300H vs Intel Xeon E5-2650

Core i5-8300H vs Xeon E5-2650 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-8300H performs better than the Xeon E5-2650. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2650 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2650 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-8300H has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8300H. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-8300H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2650. Also, the Core i5-8300H has a much higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8300H CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2650 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 i5-8300H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.