Intel Core i9-9980HK vs Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2

Core i9-9980HK vs Xeon E5-1650 v2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1650 v2 beats the Core i9-9980HK in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9980HK in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-9980HK has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-1650 v2. Indeed, the Core i9-9980HK has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon E5-1650 v2. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1650 v2. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1650 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed than 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 v2 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i9-9980HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.