Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3 vs Intel Core i7-1270P

Xeon E5-2697 v3 vs Core i7-1270P specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 is faster than the Core i7-1270P. Despite this, the Core i7-1270P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i7-1270P has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-1270P. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-1270P. Despite this, the Core i7-1270P has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1270P outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2697 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 E5-2697 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.