Intel Xeon E5-2643 v2 vs Intel Core i5-1235U

Xeon E5-2643 v2 vs Core i5-1235U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-1235U beats the Xeon E5-2643 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2643 v2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-1235U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2643 v2 that has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2643 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1235U. Despite this, the Core i5-1235U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1235U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2643 v2 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 E5-2643 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.