Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Intel Core i5-13500H

Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Core i5-13500H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 beats the Core i5-13500H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-13500H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 cores compared to the Core i5-13500H that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13500H.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.