Intel Core i5-8259U vs Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3

Core i5-8259U vs Xeon E5-2660 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2660 v3 beats the Core i5-8259U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-8259U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-8259U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8259U. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8259U. Despite this, the Core i5-8259U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8259U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2660 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 i5-8259U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.