Intel Core i9-8950HK vs Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2

Core i9-8950HK vs Xeon E3-1240 V2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1240 V2 beats the Core i9-8950HK in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-8950HK in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-8950HK has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Xeon E3-1240 V2 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1240 V2. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1240 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-8950HK. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-8950HK has more L2 cache than the Xeon E3-1240 V2. The Core i9-8950HK also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i9-8950HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.