Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 125H

Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Core Ultra 5 125H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 beats the Core Ultra 5 125H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 5 125H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 5 125H 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 Ultra 5 125H. Our comparison shows that the Core Ultra 5 125H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v3.

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.