Intel Xeon E5-2689 vs Intel Core i5-1245U

Xeon E5-2689 vs Core i5-1245U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-1245U is faster than the Xeon E5-2689. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2689 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1245U 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 i5-1245U.

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.