Intel Core i9-10980HK vs Intel Xeon E5-2470 v2

Core i9-10980HK vs Xeon E5-2470 v2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10980HK beats the Xeon E5-2470 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2470 v2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2470 v2 has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i9-10980HK that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-10980HK. According to our data, the Core i9-10980HK and Xeon E5-2470 v2 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i9-10980HK has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-10980HK CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2470 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 i9-10980HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.