Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Intel Core i7-13850HX

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 12 core CPU vs Intel 20 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5502 points
8904 points
61% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5267 points
10350 points
96% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5565 points
8534 points
53% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5563 points
8540 points
53% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

165.47 points
288.81 points
74% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
20
66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
28
16% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
23% slightly higher clock speed
2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
5.3 GHz
51% significantly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40
100% significantly more pcie lanes
20

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

768 GiB
499% significantly more supported memory
128 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

294th of 1,089
114th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family
13th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR5-5600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
Yes

Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Core i7-13850HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-13850HX is faster 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 Core i7-13850HX has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-2690 v3. Indeed, the Core i7-13850HX has 20 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Xeon E5-2690 v3. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2690 v3. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13850HX.

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.

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