Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs Intel Core 5 120U

Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs Core 5 120U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1660 v3 beats the Core 5 120U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core 5 120U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 5 120U has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has 8 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has more threads than the Core 5 120U. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core 5 120U.

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 E5-1660 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.