Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Intel Core i7-1365U

Xeon E5-1660 v4 vs Core i7-1365U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-1365U beats the Xeon E5-1660 v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1660 v4 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1365U has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has 8 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has more threads than the Core i7-1365U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1365U. Despite this, the Core i7-1365U has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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.