Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2 vs Intel Core i5-1245U

Xeon E5-1680 v2 vs Core i5-1245U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-1680 v2 performs better than the Core i5-1245U. Despite this, the Core i5-1245U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-1245U has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Xeon E5-1680 v2 that has 8 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1680 v2 has more threads than the Core i5-1245U. The Core i5-1245U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1680 v2 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 E5-1680 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.