Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 356H

Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Core Ultra 7 356H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 beats the Core Ultra 7 356H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 356H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 7 356H has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has 12 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has more threads than the Core Ultra 7 356H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 356H.

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.