Intel Core i9-11900H vs Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2

Core i9-11900H vs Xeon E5-2697 v2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 beats the Core i9-11900H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-11900H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has significantly more cores than the Core i9-11900H. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i9-11900H. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900H. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-11900H. Despite this, the Core i9-11900H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-11900H CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697 v2 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 i9-11900H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.