Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 356H

Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs Core Ultra 7 356H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core Ultra 7 356H performs better than the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 7 356H has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 356H has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Xeon E5-2640 v3. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 356H.

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 E5-2640 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.