Intel Core i5-8265U vs Intel Xeon E5-2640

Core i5-8265U vs Xeon E5-2640 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2640 beats the Core i5-8265U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-8265U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2640 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-8265U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8265U. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2640 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8265U. Despite this, the Core i5-8265U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8265U 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. The info from our database shows that the Xeon E5-2640 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8265U. The Xeon E5-2640 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i5-8265U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.