Intel Xeon E5-2689 vs Intel Core i5-1240P

Xeon E5-2689 vs Core i5-1240P benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2689 is faster than the Core i5-1240P. Despite this, the Core i5-1240P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1240P has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2689 has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. The Core i5-1240P 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.

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 E5-2689 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.