Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Intel Core i9-13900H

Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Core i9-13900H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 beats the Core i9-13900H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-13900H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has slightly more cores with 18 cores compared to the Core i9-13900H that has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-13900H.

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