Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs Intel Core i5-13420H

Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs Core i5-13420H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 beats the Core i5-13420H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-13420H has 8 cores. 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 E5-2678 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.