Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3 vs Intel Core 5 120U

Xeon E5-2676 v3 vs Core 5 120U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2676 v3 is faster than the Core 5 120U. Despite this, the Core 5 120U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2676 v3 has slightly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core 5 120U has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core 5 120U.

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 E5-2676 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.