Comparison: Mobile Xeon vs Regular i-series CPUs and the Role of ECC Support

In terms of silicon, a mobile Xeon is really no different from the regular i-series.

Intel also stopped releasing Xeon laptop CPUs after the 11th generation.

Really the only advantage is the official support for ECC.

And no, 3D drawing programs, video editing, virtualization is:
1) not critical (perhaps a VM, but then you should not run it on a consumer OS)
2) ECC is heavily overrated on a consumer OS. That OS is many times more likely to fail due to a software error than due to a hardware error that would be prevented by using ECC.

TLDR:
A mobile Xeon, especially with Windows 11, has no added value at all over an i7/i9.

And Intel has known that for 3 years, because they haven’t had it that long.

And no, just because you use a laptop heavily does not mean that a Xeon is useful.

Moreover, those CPUs are all at least 3 years old, and the current ones are much faster. 8 cores vs up to 24 cores.

A current midrange i5 is faster.

2023-10-27 18:29:56
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