Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 vs Intel Core i3-1220P

Xeon E5-2660 v2 vs Core i3-1220P benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2660 v2 beats the Core i3-1220P in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-1220P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon E5-2660 v2 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2660 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-1220P. Despite this, the Core i3-1220P has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-1220P 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.

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 E5-2660 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.