Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 125H

Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Core Ultra 5 125H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 beats the Core Ultra 5 125H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 5 125H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has slightly more cores than the Core Ultra 5 125H. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has 18 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Core Ultra 5 125H. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 125H.

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.