Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 vs Intel Core i7-1260P

Xeon E5-2697 v2 vs Core i7-1260P comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-1260P beats the Xeon E5-2697 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697 v2 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1260P. Despite this, the Core i7-1260P has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1260P outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2697 v2 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 E5-2697 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.