Intel Core i9-9980HK vs Intel Xeon E5-1650

Core i9-9980HK vs Xeon E5-1650 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-9980HK is faster than the Xeon E5-1650. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1650 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-9980HK has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon E5-1650 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1650. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-1650 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-9980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-9980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-9980HK CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1650 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i9-9980HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.