Intel Xeon E5-2695 v2 vs Intel Core i5-1245U

Xeon E5-2695 v2 vs Core i5-1245U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2695 v2 beats the Core i5-1245U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-1245U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2695 v2 has slightly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i5-1245U that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-1245U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2695 v2 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 E5-2695 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.