Intel Core i7-10870H vs Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3

Core i7-10870H vs Xeon E5-2678 v3 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2678 v3 performs better than the Core i7-10870H. Despite this, the Core i7-10870H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i7-10870H that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-10870H. A Core i7-10870H CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2678 v3 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 i7-10870H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.