Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs Intel Core i7-11600H

Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs Core i7-11600H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 beats the Core i7-11600H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-11600H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-11600H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11600H. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-11600H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2666 v3. In terms of cache, the Core i7-11600H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-11600H.

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. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.