Intel Core i5-10500 vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4

Core i5-10500 vs Xeon E5-2690 v4 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 beats the Core i5-10500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-10500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i5-10500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10500. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-10500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Also, the Core i5-10500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-10500 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 i5-10500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.