Intel Xeon E5-2690 vs Intel Core i7-1260P

Xeon E5-2690 vs Core i7-1260P benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-1260P 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 i7-1260P has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-2690. Indeed, the Core i7-1260P has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Xeon E5-2690. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-1260P. Despite this, the Core i7-1260P has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1260P 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.

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