Intel Xeon E5-2687W vs Intel Core i5-1235U

Xeon E5-2687W vs Core i5-1235U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2687W performs better than the Core i5-1235U. Despite this, the Core i5-1235U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-1235U has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2687W that has 8 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2687W has more threads than the Core i5-1235U. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2687W has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1235U. Despite this, the Core i5-1235U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1235U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2687W thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-1235U has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2687W. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2687W has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-1235U.

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 E5-2687W has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.