Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs Intel Core i5-1340P

Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs Core i5-1340P specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 beats the Core i5-1340P in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-1340P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-1340P has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Indeed, the Core i5-1340P has 12 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has more threads than the Core i5-1340P. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1340P. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-1340P has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-1340P.

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 E5-2666 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.