Intel Core i5-10310U vs Intel Xeon E5-2640

Core i5-10310U vs Xeon E5-2640 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2640 is faster than the Core i5-10310U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10310U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2640 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-10310U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10310U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10310U. Despite this, the Core i5-10310U has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-10310U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2640 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 Core i5-10310U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.