Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Intel Core i7-1260P

Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Core i7-1260P comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-1660 v4 performs better than the Core i7-1260P. Despite this, the Core i7-1260P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-1260P has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-1660 v4. Indeed, the Core i7-1260P has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Xeon E5-1660 v4. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1260P. Despite this, the Core i7-1260P has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1260P outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1660 v4 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 E5-1660 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.