Intel Xeon E5-2609 v3 vs Intel N97

Xeon E5-2609 v3 vs N97 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2609 v3 beats the N97 in overall performance. Despite this, the N97 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2609 v3 has significantly more cores than the N97. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2609 v3 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the N97. It also has more threads than the N97. With our hardware info, we find that the N97 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2609 v3.

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. For instance, the Xeon E5-2609 v3 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.