Intel Core i9-11980HK vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3

Core i9-11980HK vs Xeon E5-2690 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-11980HK is faster than the Xeon E5-2690 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has significantly more cores than the Core i9-11980HK. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i9-11980HK. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11980HK. Both the Core i9-11980HK and Xeon E5-2690 v3 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i9-11980HK has a much higher turbo speed. A Core i9-11980HK 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 i9-11980HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.