Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 vs Intel Core i5-13450HX

Xeon E5-2680 v4 vs Core i5-13450HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13450HX beats the Xeon E5-2680 v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v4 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i5-13450HX has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13450HX. Both the Xeon E5-2680 v4 and Core i5-13450HX have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i5-13450HX 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 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.