Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 135U

Xeon E5-2698 v3 vs Core Ultra 5 135U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 5 135U is faster than the Xeon E5-2698 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2698 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2698 v3 has slightly more cores than the Core Ultra 5 135U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2698 v3 has 16 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Core Ultra 5 135U. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 135U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2698 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 5 135U. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 135U has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 E5-2698 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.