Intel Core i5-10400F vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3

Core i5-10400F vs Xeon E5-2687W v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2687W v3 beats the Core i5-10400F in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-10400F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2687W v3 has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i5-10400F that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10400F. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2687W v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10400F. Despite this, the Core i5-10400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-10400F CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2687W v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Xeon E5-2687W v3 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-10400F. The Xeon E5-2687W v3 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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