Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs Intel Core i7-1365U

Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs Core i7-1365U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 beats the Core i7-1365U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-1365U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has slightly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i7-1365U that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-1365U.

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.