Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 vs Intel Core i7-1355U

Xeon E5-2680 v2 vs Core i7-1355U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-1355U is faster than the Xeon E5-2680 v2. 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. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1355U. Despite this, the Core i7-1355U has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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.