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 Xeon E5-2696 v2 is faster than the Core Ultra 5 135U. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 135U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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.