Intel Xeon E5-2683 v3 vs Intel Core i7-11600H

Xeon E5-2683 v3 vs Core i7-11600H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2683 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 E5-2683 v3 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-11600H. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2683 v3 has 14 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 significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2683 v3. Also, the Core i7-11600H 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 E5-2683 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.