Intel Xeon W-2133 vs Intel Core i7-1255U

Xeon W-2133 vs Core i7-1255U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon W-2133 beats the Core i7-1255U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-1255U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-1255U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Xeon W-2133 that has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon W-2133 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-1255U. Despite this, the Core i7-1255U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1255U outputs less heat than Xeon W-2133 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 W-2133 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.