Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2 vs Intel Core 7 150U

Xeon E3-1240 V2 vs Core 7 150U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 7 150U is faster than the Xeon E3-1240 V2. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1240 V2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 7 150U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E3-1240 V2 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1240 V2. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1240 V2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 7 150U. In terms of cache, the Core 7 150U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E3-1240 V2. The Core 7 150U also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1240 V2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.