Intel Core i7-9850H vs Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2

Core i7-9850H vs Xeon E5-1680 v2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-9850H beats the Xeon E5-1680 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1680 v2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-1680 v2 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-9850H that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-9850H. A Core i7-9850H CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1680 v2 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 i7-9850H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.