Intel Xeon E5-2640 vs Intel Core 7 150U

Xeon E5-2640 vs Core 7 150U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core 7 150U performs better than the Xeon E5-2640. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core 7 150U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2640 that has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2640 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core 7 150U. Despite this, the Core 7 150U has a significantly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core 7 150U has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2640. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2640 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core 7 150U.

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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.