Intel Core i5-9300H vs Intel Xeon E5-2660

Core i5-9300H vs Xeon E5-2660 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2660 performs better than the Core i5-9300H. Despite this, the Core i5-9300H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2660 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-9300H has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-9300H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-9300H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660. Also, the Core i5-9300H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-9300H CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2660 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 i5-9300H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.