Intel Core i9-11980HK vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3

Core i9-11980HK vs Xeon E5-2696 v3 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2696 v3 performs better than the Core i9-11980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-11980HK has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores than the Core i9-11980HK. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has 18 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i9-11980HK. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11980HK. A Core i9-11980HK CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2696 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i9-11980HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.