Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Intel Core 7 240H

Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Core 7 240H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 is faster than the Core 7 240H. Despite this, the Core 7 240H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores than the Core 7 240H. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has 18 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core 7 240H. It also has more threads than the Core 7 240H.

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 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.