Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3 vs Intel Core 7 240H

Xeon E5-2697 v3 vs Core 7 240H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core 7 240H beats the Xeon E5-2697 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core 7 240H has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core 7 240H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 7 240H. Despite this, the Core 7 240H has a significantly higher turbo speed.

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 E5-2697 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.