Intel Core i7-9850H vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i7 6 core CPU vs Intel 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4014 points
5240 points
30% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5637 points
8% slightly better gaming score
5199 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3514 points
5238 points
49% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3402 points
5217 points
53% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

87.11 points
103.15 points
18% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5022 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4163 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1359 points
172% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
499 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5044 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4084 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1387 points
159% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
534 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
12
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
24
100% significantly more threads

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

434th of 1,089
320th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i7
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-9850H vs Xeon E5-2696 v2 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-9850H is faster than the Xeon E5-2696 v2. 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 i7-9850H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-9850H.

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 i7-9850H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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