Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Intel Core i5-13450HX

Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Core i5-13450HX benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-13450HX performs better than the Xeon E5-2690 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has slightly more cores than the Core i5-13450HX. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has 12 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core i5-13450HX. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13450HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13450HX. Despite this, the Core i5-13450HX has a slightly higher turbo speed.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.