Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Intel Core i7-1255U

Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Core i7-1255U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 beats the Core i7-1255U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-1255U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-1255U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has 18 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core i7-1255U. It also has more threads than the Core i7-1255U. The Core i7-1255U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2696 v3 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.