Intel Xeon E-2176M vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

Xeon E-2176M vs Xeon E5-2696 v2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 beats the Xeon E-2176M in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E-2176M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Xeon E-2176M that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E-2176M.

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 Xeon E-2176M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.