Intel Xeon E3-1270 V2 vs Intel Core 5 120U

Xeon E3-1270 V2 vs Core 5 120U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core 5 120U beats the Xeon E3-1270 V2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1270 V2 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 E3-1270 V2 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1270 V2. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1270 V2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 5 120U. In terms of cache, the Core 5 120U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E3-1270 V2. The Core 5 120U also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 E3-1270 V2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.