Intel Xeon E5-2643 vs Intel Core i7-1260U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 4 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2971 points

3070 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4108 points

5214 points

26% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2620 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

2436 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2542 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

2288 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.83 points

91.50 points

124% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2094 points

6227 points

197% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

566 points

1917 points

238% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

200% significantly higher clock speed

1.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

4.7 GHz

34% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

9 W

1344% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

185% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

384 GiB

499% significantly more supported memory

64 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

542nd of 1,089

530th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR5-5200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2643 vs Core i7-1260U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-1260U beats the Xeon E5-2643 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2643 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1260U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2643 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2643. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2643 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-1260U. Despite this, the Core i7-1260U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1260U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2643 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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.