Intel Xeon E5-2650 v3 vs Intel Core i5-1245U

Xeon E5-2650 v3 vs Core i5-1245U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2650 v3 beats the Core i5-1245U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-1245U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E5-2650 v3 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1245U. Despite this, the Core i5-1245U has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1245U 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.

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 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.