Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3

Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs Xeon E5-2696 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 beats the Xeon E5-2696 v2 in overall performance. 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 Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2696 v2.

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.