Intel Core i9-11900K vs Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3

Core i9-11900K vs Xeon E5-2673 v3 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-11900K performs better than the Xeon E5-2673 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2673 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2673 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i9-11900K has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900K. The Xeon E5-2673 v3 outputs less heat than Core i9-11900K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i9-11900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.