Intel Xeon E-2186M vs Intel Core i5-1235U

Xeon E-2186M vs Core i5-1235U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E-2186M beats the Core i5-1235U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-1235U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-1235U has significantly more cores than the Xeon E-2186M. Indeed, the Core i5-1235U has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon E-2186M. 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 i5-1235U. Also, the Xeon E-2186M has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1235U outputs less heat than Xeon E-2186M thanks to a 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 Xeon E-2186M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.