Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs Intel Xeon Silver 4114

Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs Xeon Silver 4114 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 beats the Xeon Silver 4114 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon Silver 4114 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has slightly more cores than the Xeon Silver 4114. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has 12 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Xeon Silver 4114. It also has more threads than the Xeon Silver 4114.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.