Intel Xeon E5-1660 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 125U

Xeon E5-1660 vs Core Ultra 5 125U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-1660 is faster than the Core Ultra 5 125U. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 125U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 5 125U has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Xeon E5-1660 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1660. With our hardware info, we find that the Core Ultra 5 125U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-1660. Also, the Core Ultra 5 125U 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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.