Intel Core i9-11980HK vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4

Core i9-11980HK vs Xeon E5-2690 v4 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2690 v4 performs better than the Core i9-11980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-11980HK has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i9-11980HK has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11980HK. In terms of clock speed, the Core i9-11980HK and Xeon E5-2690 v4 are identical in this regard. 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 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.