Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Intel Core i7-11600H

Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Core i7-11600H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11600H beats the Xeon E5-2680 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-11600H. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-11600H. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11600H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-11600H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2680 v3. Also, the Core i7-11600H has a slightly higher turbo speed.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.