Intel Core i5-8350U vs Intel Xeon X5687

Core i5-8350U vs Xeon X5687 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8350U beats the Xeon X5687 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon X5687 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-8350U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon X5687 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8350U. Also, the Xeon X5687 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8350U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5687 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Xeon X5687 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i5-8350U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.