Intel Core i7-10710U vs Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2

Core i7-10710U vs Xeon E5-2660 v2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10710U beats the Xeon E5-2660 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2660 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2660 v2 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-10710U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-10710U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-10710U. Despite this, the Core i7-10710U has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-10710U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2660 v2 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 i7-10710U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.