Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 vs Intel Core i3-1215U

Xeon E5-2660 v2 vs Core i3-1215U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-1215U performs better than the Xeon E5-2660 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2660 v2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2660 v2 has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i3-1215U that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-1215U. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2660 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to 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 E5-2660 v2 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.