Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs Intel Core i7-1260P

Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs Core i7-1260P benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-1260P beats the Xeon E5-2640 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-1260P has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2640 v3 that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-1260P. Despite this, the Core i7-1260P has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1260P outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2640 v3 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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