Intel Xeon E5-2690 vs Intel Core i5-1235U

Xeon E5-2690 vs Core i5-1235U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2690 performs better than the Core i5-1235U. Despite this, the Core i5-1235U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-1235U has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2690 that has 8 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2690 has more threads than the Core i5-1235U. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2690 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1235U. Despite this, the Core i5-1235U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1235U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2690 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 E5-2690 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.