Intel Xeon E5-2689 vs Intel Core i5-1235U

Xeon E5-2689 vs Core i5-1235U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2689 is faster than the Core i5-1235U. Despite this, the Core i5-1235U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1235U has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2689 has 8 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2689 has more threads than the Core i5-1235U. The Core i5-1235U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2689 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2689 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.