Intel Core i7-8550U vs Intel Xeon E5-2660

Core i7-8550U vs Xeon E5-2660 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2660 beats the Core i7-8550U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8550U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2660 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-8550U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8550U. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2660 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8550U. Despite this, the Core i7-8550U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8550U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2660 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.