Intel Core i5-7260U vs Intel Xeon W3520

Core i5-7260U vs Xeon W3520 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon W3520 performs better than the Core i5-7260U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7260U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon W3520 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i5-7260U that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon W3520 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-7260U. Despite this, the Core i5-7260U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-7260U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W3520 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-7260U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.