Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 vs Intel Core i7-1260U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 10 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3224 points

5% slightly better overall score

3070 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3691 points

5214 points

41% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3095 points

27% slightly better multitasking score

2436 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3090 points

35% slightly better heavy workload score

2288 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

78.25 points

91.50 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3197 points

6227 points

94% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

457 points

1917 points

319% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.2 GHz

100% significantly higher clock speed

1.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3 GHz

4.7 GHz

56% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

9 W

955% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

185% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

768 GiB

1100% significantly more supported memory

64 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

508th of 1,089

530th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family

12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR5-5200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2660 v2 vs Core i7-1260U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2660 v2 beats the Core i7-1260U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-1260U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount 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 i7-1260U. Despite this, the Core i7-1260U has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1260U 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.