Intel Xeon E5-2643 v2 vs Intel Core i5-1340P

Xeon E5-2643 v2 vs Core i5-1340P comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-1340P 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 i5-1340P has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2643 v2 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2643 v2. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2643 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1340P. Despite this, the Core i5-1340P has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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