Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs Intel Core i7-1260P

Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs Core i7-1260P comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-1260P performs better than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2666 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-1260P has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Indeed, the Core i7-1260P 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 i7-1260P. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1260P. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-1260P has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-1260P.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.