Intel Core i5-10400 vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3

Core i5-10400 vs Xeon E5-2690 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 is faster than the Core i5-10400. Despite this, the Core i5-10400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i5-10400 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10400. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-10400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v3. Also, the Core i5-10400 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-10400 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 Core i5-10400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.