Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 vs Intel Core i5-13420H

Xeon E5-2680 v2 vs Core i5-13420H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-13420H performs better than the Xeon E5-2680 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has slightly more cores than the Core i5-13420H. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i5-13420H. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13420H. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13420H. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has a slightly 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 E5-2680 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.