Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3 vs Intel Core i5-13420H

Xeon E5-2670 v3 vs Core i5-13420H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2670 v3 is faster than the Core i5-13420H. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2670 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i5-13420H that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13420H. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2670 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13420H. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has a significantly higher turbo speed.

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 E5-2670 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.