Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 356H

Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs Core Ultra 7 356H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core Ultra 7 356H performs better than the Xeon E5-2696 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2696 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 7 356H has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has 12 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has more threads than 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 E5-2696 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.