Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 165H

Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Core Ultra 7 165H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core Ultra 7 165H 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 Core Ultra 7 165H has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2690 v3. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 165H has 16 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Xeon E5-2690 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has more threads than the Core Ultra 7 165H. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 165H.

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.