Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Intel Core i7-1265U

Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Core i7-1265U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2690 v3 performs better than the Core i7-1265U. Despite this, the Core i7-1265U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has slightly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i7-1265U that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-1265U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1265U. Despite this, the Core i7-1265U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1265U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2690 v3 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 E5-2690 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.