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

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

30% slightly better overall score

3070 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4213 points

5214 points

23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3900 points

60% significantly better multitasking score

2436 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points

68% significantly better heavy workload score

2288 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

129.03 points

41% slightly higher Blender score

91.50 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5959 points

6227 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

985 points

1917 points

94% 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

2.6 GHz

136% significantly higher clock speed

1.1 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

9 W

1066% 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

436th of 1,089

529th 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

DDR5-5200

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 i7-1260U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-1260U performs better than the Xeon E5-2660 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2660 v3 in all gaming tests too.

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.