Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs Intel Core 5 210H

Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs Core 5 210H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core 5 210H beats the Xeon E5-2678 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2678 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has significantly more cores than the Core 5 210H. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core 5 210H. It also has more threads than the Core 5 210H.

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 E5-2678 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.