Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 165H

Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Core Ultra 7 165H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 beats the Core Ultra 7 165H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 165H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has slightly more cores with 18 cores whereas the Core Ultra 7 165H has 16 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 7 165H.

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.