Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 vs Intel Core i5-1245U

Xeon E5-2680 v2 vs Core i5-1245U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-1245U beats the Xeon E5-2680 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1245U.

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.