Intel Xeon E-2186M vs Intel Core 5 120U

Compare Intel Xeon E 6 core CPU vs Intel Core (Series 1) 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4251 points

4342 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5667 points

7190 points

26% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3818 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

3534 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3707 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

3381 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.89 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

85.75 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5235 points

7114 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1426 points

2111 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz

107% significantly higher clock speed

1.4 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

96 GiB

49% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

416th of 1,089

407th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E

Core (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR5-5200

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E-2186M vs Core 5 120U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 5 120U is faster than the Xeon E-2186M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E-2186M in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core 5 120U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Xeon E-2186M that has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E-2186M has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core 5 120U.

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 Xeon E-2186M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.