Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 356H

Xeon E5-2660 v4 vs Core Ultra 7 356H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 7 356H beats the Xeon E5-2660 v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2660 v4 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 7 356H has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2660 v4 has 14 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2660 v4 has more threads than the Core Ultra 7 356H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 v4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 356H. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 7 356H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-2660 v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2660 v4 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 7 356H.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.