Intel Xeon E5-2689 vs Intel Core i7-1255U

Xeon E5-2689 vs Core i7-1255U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-1255U performs better than the Xeon E5-2689. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2689 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-1255U has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2689. Indeed, the Core i7-1255U has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Xeon E5-2689. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2689 has more threads than the Core i7-1255U. The Core i7-1255U 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2689 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.