Intel Xeon E5-2630 v2 vs Intel Core 5 120U

Xeon E5-2630 v2 vs Core 5 120U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core 5 120U is faster than the Xeon E5-2630 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2630 v2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core 5 120U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2630 v2 that has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2630 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core 5 120U.

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 E5-2630 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.