Intel Core i7-10870H vs Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3

Core i7-10870H vs Xeon E5-2697 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10870H beats the Xeon E5-2697 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i7-10870H has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-10870H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-10870H. Despite this, the Core i7-10870H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-10870H CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697 v3 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 i7-10870H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.