Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 vs Intel Core i7-14700HX

Xeon E5-2699 v3 vs Core i7-14700HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14700HX beats the Xeon E5-2699 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2699 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14700HX has slightly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2699 v3 that has 18 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has more threads than the Core i7-14700HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700HX. Despite this, the Core i7-14700HX 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 E5-2699 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.