Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs Intel Core i7-1355U

Xeon E5-1660 v3 vs Core i7-1355U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1660 v3 beats the Core i7-1355U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-1355U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-1355U has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Xeon E5-1660 v3 that has 8 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has more threads than the Core i7-1355U. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1355U. Despite this, the Core i7-1355U has a much higher turbo speed.

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