Intel Core i5-10400 vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4

Core i5-10400 vs Xeon E5-2690 v4 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2690 v4 performs better 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 v4 has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core i5-10400 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10400. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-10400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Also, the Core i5-10400 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-10400 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 v4 CPU because of its 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 Core i5-10400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.