Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs Intel Core i5-13450HX

Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs Core i5-13450HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 is faster than the Core i5-13450HX. Despite this, the Core i5-13450HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has slightly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core i5-13450HX that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13450HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13450HX. Despite this, the Core i5-13450HX has a slightly 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 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.