Intel Core i7-10870H vs Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3

Core i7-10870H vs Xeon E5-2666 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-10870H is faster than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2666 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-10870H has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-10870H. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-10870H. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i7-10870H. The Xeon E5-2666 v3 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i7-10870H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.