Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 vs Intel Core i9-13900H

Xeon E5-2699 v3 vs Core i9-13900H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2699 v3 performs better than the Core i9-13900H. Despite this, the Core i9-13900H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has slightly more cores than the Core i9-13900H. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has 18 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Core i9-13900H. It also has more threads than the Core i9-13900H. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-13900H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2699 v3. Also, the Core i9-13900H has a significantly 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 E5-2699 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.