Intel Core i5-4690K vs Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2

Core i5-4690K vs Xeon E5-2420 v2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-4690K beats the Xeon E5-2420 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2420 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-4690K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4690K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-4690K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2420 v2. Also, the Core i5-4690K has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2420 v2 outputs less heat than Core i5-4690K thanks to a slightly 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. For instance, the Core i5-4690K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.