Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 258V

Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Core Ultra 7 258V benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 beats the Core Ultra 7 258V in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 258V 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 Ultra 7 258V that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 7 258V.

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.