Intel Xeon E5-2695 v2 vs Intel Core i5-13420H

Xeon E5-2695 v2 vs Core i5-13420H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2695 v2 beats the Core i5-13420H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2695 v2 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i5-13420H that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13420H. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2695 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13420H. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has a significantly 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 E5-2695 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.