Intel Xeon E5-2690 vs Intel Core 5 120U

Xeon E5-2690 vs Core 5 120U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core 5 120U beats the Xeon E5-2690 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 5 120U has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2690 has 8 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2690 has more threads than the Core 5 120U. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core 5 120U.

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