Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 155U

Xeon E5-2660 v3 vs Core Ultra 7 155U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core Ultra 7 155U 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 7 155U has slightly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2660 v3 that has 10 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has more threads than the Core Ultra 7 155U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 155U.

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.