Intel Core i5-8300H vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

Core i5-8300H vs Xeon E5-2689 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2689 beats the Core i5-8300H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-8300H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2689 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-8300H. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2689 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-8300H. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8300H. A Core i5-8300H CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2689 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.