Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 vs Intel Core i5-13420H

Xeon E5-2673 v3 vs Core i5-13420H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2673 v3 performs better than the Core i5-13420H. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2673 v3 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-13420H. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2673 v3 has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i5-13420H. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13420H.

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 E5-2673 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.