Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 vs Intel Core i7-1260U

Xeon E3-1245 v5 vs Core i7-1260U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-1260U is faster than the Xeon E3-1245 v5. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1245 v5 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-1260U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Xeon E3-1245 v5 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1245 v5. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1245 v5 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1260U. Despite this, the Core i7-1260U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1260U outputs less heat than Xeon E3-1245 v5 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-1260U has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E3-1245 v5. The Core i7-1260U also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Xeon E3-1245 v5 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.