Intel Xeon E5-2630 v2 vs Intel Core 7 150U

Xeon E5-2630 v2 vs Core 7 150U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2630 v2 performs better than the Core 7 150U. Despite this, the Core 7 150U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 7 150U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2630 v2 has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2630 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 7 150U. Despite this, the Core 7 150U has a significantly higher turbo speed.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2630 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.