Intel Core i9-13980HX vs Intel Xeon Gold 6154

Core i9-13980HX vs Xeon Gold 6154 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-13980HX is faster than the Xeon Gold 6154. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Gold 6154 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon Gold 6154 has significantly more cores than the Core i9-13980HX. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6154 has 18 cores compared to 5 cores found in the Core i9-13980HX. It also has more threads than the Core i9-13980HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon Gold 6154 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-13980HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13980HX has a significantly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6154 has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i9-13980HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13980HX has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Xeon Gold 6154.

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 i9-13980HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.