Intel Core i5-9500 vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

Core i5-9500 vs Xeon E5-2696 v2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 beats the Core i5-9500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-9500 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 i5-9500 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-9500.

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. For instance, the Core i5-9500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.