Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs Intel Core i5-1245U

Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs Core i5-1245U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 beats the Core i5-1245U in overall performance. 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 E5-2640 v3 that has 8 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has more threads than the Core i5-1245U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1245U.

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 E5-2640 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.