Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3 vs Intel Core i3-1215U

Xeon E5-2650 v3 vs Core i3-1215U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2650 v3 beats the Core i3-1215U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-1215U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2650 v3 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-1215U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 v3 has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i3-1215U. It also has more threads than the Core i3-1215U. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2650 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-1215U. Despite this, the Core i3-1215U has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-1215U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2650 v3 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.