Intel Core i9-11980HK vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4

Core i9-11980HK vs Xeon E5-2680 v4 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-11980HK beats the Xeon E5-2680 v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v4 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core i9-11980HK that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11980HK. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-11980HK has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2680 v4. Also, the Core i9-11980HK has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-11980HK 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.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i9-11980HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.