Intel Core i9-11900K vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3

Core i9-11900K vs Xeon E5-2696 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-11900K is faster than the Xeon E5-2696 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2696 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores than the Core i9-11900K. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has 18 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i9-11900K. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900K. A Core i9-11900K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2696 v3 CPU because of its 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.