Intel Core i5-4690K vs Intel Xeon E5-2630 v2

Core i5-4690K vs Xeon E5-2630 v2 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2630 v2 performs better than the Core i5-4690K. Despite this, the Core i5-4690K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2630 v2 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-4690K that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4690K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-4690K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2630 v2. Also, the Core i5-4690K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2630 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.