Intel Core i7-10850H vs Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2

Core i7-10850H vs Xeon E5-2670 v2 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2670 v2 is faster than the Core i7-10850H. Despite this, the Core i7-10850H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2670 v2 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-10850H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-10850H. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-10850H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2670 v2. Also, the Core i7-10850H has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-10850H CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2670 v2 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. Indeed, the Core i7-10850H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.