Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3 vs Intel Core i7-1260U

Xeon E5-2660 v3 vs Core i7-1260U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2660 v3 performs better than the Core i7-1260U. Despite this, the Core i7-1260U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1260U. Despite this, the Core i7-1260U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1260U 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.

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