Intel Xeon X5670 vs Intel Core 7 150U

Xeon X5670 vs Core 7 150U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core 7 150U beats the Xeon X5670 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5670 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core 7 150U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon X5670 has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon X5670 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core 7 150U. Despite this, the Core 7 150U has a significantly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core 7 150U has more L2 cache than the Xeon X5670. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 X5670 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.