Intel Core i5-1145G7 vs Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3

Core i5-1145G7 vs Xeon E5-2678 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 beats the Core i5-1145G7 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-1145G7 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-1145G7 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-1145G7. A Core i5-1145G7 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2678 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 Core i5-1145G7 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.