Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2 vs Intel Core i7-1365U

Xeon E5-2697 v2 vs Core i7-1365U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 is faster than the Core i7-1365U. 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 E5-2697 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1365U. Despite this, the Core i7-1365U has a significantly higher turbo speed.

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.