Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3 vs Intel Core Ultra 5 135U

Xeon E5-2697 v3 vs Core Ultra 5 135U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 5 135U beats the Xeon E5-2697 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has slightly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core Ultra 5 135U that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core Ultra 5 135U. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 5 135U. Despite this, the Core Ultra 5 135U has a slightly higher turbo speed.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.