Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs Intel Core i7-13700HX

Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs Core i7-13700HX benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-13700HX performs better than the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 v4 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-13700HX has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Indeed, the Core i7-13700HX has 16 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has more threads than the Core i7-13700HX. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13700HX. Despite this, the Core i7-13700HX has a much higher turbo speed.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.