Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs Intel Core i7-11600H

Xeon E5-2678 v3 vs Core i7-11600H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 beats the Core i7-11600H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-11600H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-11600H. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-11600H. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11600H.

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