Intel Xeon E5-2690 vs Intel Core i5-1245U

Xeon E5-2690 vs Core i5-1245U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-1245U 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-1245U has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2690. Indeed, the Core i5-1245U has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Xeon E5-2690. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2690 has more threads than the Core i5-1245U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1245U.

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.