Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 vs Intel Core i5-1240P

Xeon E5-2680 v2 vs Core i5-1240P specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 beats the Core i5-1240P in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-1240P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-1240P has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2680 v2. Indeed, the Core i5-1240P has 12 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Xeon E5-2680 v2. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has more threads than the Core i5-1240P. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1240P. Despite this, the Core i5-1240P has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1240P outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2680 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 E5-2680 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.