Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2 vs Intel Core i7-1255U

Xeon E5-2650 v2 vs Core i7-1255U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2650 v2 performs better than the Core i7-1255U. Despite this, the Core i7-1255U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1255U has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2650 v2 has 8 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2650 v2 has more threads than the Core i7-1255U. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2650 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1255U. Despite this, the Core i7-1255U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1255U 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.