Intel Core i9-9820X vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3

Core i9-9820X vs Xeon E5-2696 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 beats the Core i9-9820X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9820X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 cores whereas the Core i9-9820X has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-9820X. The Xeon E5-2696 v3 outputs less heat than Core i9-9820X thanks to a slightly 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 i9-9820X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.