Intel Core i5-8259U vs Intel Xeon E5-2650 v4

Core i5-8259U vs Xeon E5-2650 v4 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2650 v4 is faster than the Core i5-8259U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8259U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2650 v4 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-8259U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 v4 has 12 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-8259U. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8259U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-8259U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2650 v4. Also, the Core i5-8259U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8259U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2650 v4 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 i5-8259U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.