Intel Core i9-11950H vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3

Core i9-11950H vs Xeon E5-2690 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 is faster than the Core i9-11950H. Despite this, the Core i9-11950H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i9-11950H has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11950H. In terms of clock speed, the Core i9-11950H and Xeon E5-2690 v3 are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i9-11950H has a much higher turbo speed. A Core i9-11950H CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 v3 CPU because of its significantly 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 i9-11950H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.