Intel Xeon E5-2687W vs Intel Core 5 120U

Xeon E5-2687W vs Core 5 120U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2687W beats the Core 5 120U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core 5 120U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 5 120U has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2687W has 8 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2687W has more threads than the Core 5 120U. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2687W has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 5 120U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core 5 120U has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2687W. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2687W has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core 5 120U.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2687W has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.