Intel Core i9-10980HK vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4

Core i9-10980HK vs Xeon E5-2680 v4 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 beats the Core i9-10980HK in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10980HK in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has significantly more cores than the Core i9-10980HK. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i9-10980HK. It also has more threads than the Core i9-10980HK. In terms of clock speed, the Core i9-10980HK and Xeon E5-2680 v4 are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i9-10980HK has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-10980HK CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2680 v4 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i9-10980HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.