Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Intel Core i7-1365U

Xeon E5-2680 v3 vs Core i7-1365U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2680 v3 beats the Core i7-1365U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-1365U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has slightly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i7-1365U that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-1365U. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2680 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-1365U. Despite this, the Core i7-1365U has a significantly 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 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.