Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 135U

Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs Core Ultra 5 135U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 5 135U is faster than the Xeon E5-2696 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2696 v2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has more threads.

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 E5-2696 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.