Intel Core i7-11850H vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

Core i7-11850H vs Xeon E5-2696 v2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11850H beats the Xeon E5-2696 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2696 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i7-11850H has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11850H.

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 i7-11850H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.