Intel Core i5-10600 vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3

Core i5-10600 vs Xeon E5-2690 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 beats the Core i5-10600 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-10600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-10600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10600. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-10600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2690 v3. Also, the Core i5-10600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-10600 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.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-10600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.