Intel Core i7-8665U vs Intel Xeon E-2176M

Core i7-8665U vs Xeon E-2176M comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E-2176M beats the Core i7-8665U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8665U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E-2176M has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-8665U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8665U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E-2176M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8665U. Despite this, the Core i7-8665U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8665U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E-2176M 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 i7-8665U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.