Intel Xeon E5-2689 vs Intel Core i5-1345U

Xeon E5-2689 vs Core i5-1345U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2689 performs better than the Core i5-1345U. 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 E5-2689 that has 8 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2689 has more threads than the Core i5-1345U.

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.