Intel Xeon E5-2689 vs Intel Core i7-1355U

Xeon E5-2689 vs Core i7-1355U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2689 beats the Core i7-1355U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-1355U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1355U 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 i7-1355U.

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.