Intel Xeon E5-2687W vs Intel Core i5-1345U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i5 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4113 points
6% slightly better overall score
3872 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4879 points
5947 points
21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3854 points
16% slightly better multitasking score
3314 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3775 points
17% slightly better heavy workload score
3202 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

87.34 points
96.06 points
9% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
10
25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.10 GHz
93% significantly higher clock speed
1.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
4.7 GHz
23% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40
100% significantly more pcie lanes
20

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

256 GiB
300% significantly more supported memory
64 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
4 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

20 MiB
66% significantly more L3 cache
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

426th of 1,089
446th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family
13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR5-5200

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Xeon E5-2687W vs Core i5-1345U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2687W beats the Core i5-1345U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-1345U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-1345U 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 i5-1345U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2687W has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1345U. Despite this, the Core i5-1345U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-1345U has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2687W. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2687W has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-1345U.

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.

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