Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs Intel Core i5-13420H

Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs Core i5-13420H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13420H is faster than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697A v4 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-13420H that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13420H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13420H. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-13420H has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-13420H.

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 E5-2697A v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.