Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2 vs Intel Core i3-1215U

Xeon E5-2650 v2 vs Core i3-1215U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-1215U beats the Xeon E5-2650 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2650 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2650 v2 has slightly more cores than the Core i3-1215U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 v2 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i3-1215U. It also has more threads than the Core i3-1215U. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2650 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1215U. Despite this, the Core i3-1215U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-1215U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2650 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 E5-2650 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.