Intel Core i5-11600KF vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4

Core i5-11600KF vs Xeon E5-2690 v4 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 beats the Core i5-11600KF in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-11600KF 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 i5-11600KF that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11600KF. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11600KF has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Also, the Core i5-11600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-11600KF CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 v4 CPU because of its slightly 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 i5-11600KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.