Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Intel Core i7-1265U

Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Core i7-1265U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-1265U is faster than the Xeon E5-1660 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1660 v4 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-1265U has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Xeon E5-1660 v4 that has 8 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has more threads than the Core i7-1265U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1265U. Despite this, the Core i7-1265U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1265U 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.

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