Intel Core i9-10885H vs Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3

Core i9-10885H vs Xeon E5-2666 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 beats the Core i9-10885H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-10885H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i9-10885H that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-10885H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10885H.

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 i9-10885H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.