Intel Xeon E5-2643 v2 vs Intel Core i7-1260P

Xeon E5-2643 v2 vs Core i7-1260P comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2643 v2 is faster than the Core i7-1260P. Despite this, the Core i7-1260P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-1260P has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-2643 v2. Indeed, the Core i7-1260P has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon E5-2643 v2. 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 i7-1260P. Despite this, the Core i7-1260P has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1260P 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.

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.