Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs Intel Core i5-13450HX

Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs Core i5-13450HX benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 performs better than the Core i5-13450HX. Despite this, the Core i5-13450HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i5-13450HX has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13450HX. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13450HX. Despite this, the Core i5-13450HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-13450HX 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 i5-13450HX.

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