Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 vs Intel Core i5-1235U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 10 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-1235U

Price

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$ 255.14

$ 431.93 significantly less expensive

$ 687.07

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4385 points

12% slightly better overall score

3900 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4645 points

5787 points

24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4290 points

27% slightly better multitasking score

3361 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4267 points

31% slightly better heavy workload score

3239 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

94.52 points

28% slightly higher Blender score

73.73 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3460 points

5801 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

496 points

1884 points

279% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3408 points

5632 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

497 points

1824 points

267% 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

2.5 GHz

92% significantly higher clock speed

1.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.3 GHz

4.4 GHz

33% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

115 W

15 W

666% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

100% 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

402nd of 1,089

442nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2670 v2 vs Core i5-1235U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2670 v2 beats the Core i5-1235U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-1235U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E5-2670 v2 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2670 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1235U. Despite this, the Core i5-1235U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1235U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2670 v2 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 E5-2670 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.