Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 356H

Xeon E5-2690 v2 vs Core Ultra 7 356H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 7 356H is faster than the Xeon E5-2690 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 7 356H has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has 10 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has more threads than the Core Ultra 7 356H. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 356H.

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 E5-2690 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.