Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3 vs Intel Core i7-1255U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 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

3996 points

7% slightly better overall score

3722 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4213 points

5577 points

32% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3900 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

3201 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points

24% slightly better heavy workload score

3089 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

129.03 points

69% significantly higher Blender score

75.98 points

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

2.6 GHz

52% significantly higher clock speed

1.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

4.7 GHz

42% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

15 W

599% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

100% 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

436th of 1,089

459th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2660 v3 vs Core i7-1255U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-1255U beats the Xeon E5-2660 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2660 v3 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-1255U. Despite this, the Core i7-1255U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1255U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2660 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 E5-2660 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.