Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs Intel Core i5-1245U

Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs Core i5-1245U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 beats the Core i5-1245U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-1245U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has slightly more cores than the Core i5-1245U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has 12 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core i5-1245U. It also has more threads than 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 E5-2696 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.