Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 vs Intel Core i7-14700HX

Xeon E5-2680 v4 vs Core i7-14700HX comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-14700HX performs better than the Xeon E5-2680 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v4 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-14700HX has many more cores than the Xeon E5-2680 v4. Indeed, the Core i7-14700HX has 20 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Xeon E5-2680 v4. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700HX. Despite this, the Core i7-14700HX has a significantly 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.