Intel Core i7-10870H vs Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3

Core i7-10870H vs Xeon E5-2699 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 beats the Core i7-10870H in overall performance. 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 E5-2699 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 cores compared to the Core i7-10870H that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-10870H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2699 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 E5-2699 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.