Intel Xeon E5-2687W vs Intel Core i7-1255U

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 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
10% slightly better overall score
3722 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4879 points
5577 points
14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3854 points
20% slightly better multitasking score
3201 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3775 points
22% slightly better heavy workload score
3089 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

87.34 points
14% slightly higher Blender score
75.98 points

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
82% significantly higher clock speed
1.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
4.7 GHz
23% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

150 W
15 W
900% significantly lower TDP

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
459th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family
12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Xeon E5-2687W vs Core i7-1255U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-1255U performs better than the Xeon E5-2687W. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2687W in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1255U 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 i7-1255U. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2687W has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-1255U. Despite this, the Core i7-1255U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1255U 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-1255U 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 i7-1255U.

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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