Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Intel Core i9-13900H

Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Core i9-13900H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 beats the Core i9-13900H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-13900H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-13900H has slightly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v3 that has 12 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has more threads than the Core i9-13900H. Both the Xeon E5-2690 v3 and Core i9-13900H have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i9-13900H 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 E5-2690 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.