Intel Core i7-8550U vs Intel Xeon E5-1603

Core i7-8550U vs Xeon E5-1603 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-8550U is faster than the Xeon E5-1603. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1603 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-8550U has more threads. A Core i7-8550U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1603 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 i7-8550U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.