Intel Core i7-10875H vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

Core i7-10875H vs Xeon E5-2696 v2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 beats the Core i7-10875H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-10875H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-10875H. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i7-10875H. It also has more threads than the Core i7-10875H.

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 i7-10875H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.