Intel Xeon E5-2637 v3 vs Intel Core 5 120U

Xeon E5-2637 v3 vs Core 5 120U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2637 v3 performs better than the Core 5 120U. Despite this, the Core 5 120U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core 5 120U has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-2637 v3. Indeed, the Core 5 120U has 10 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E5-2637 v3. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2637 v3. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2637 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core 5 120U.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2637 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.