Intel Core i5-8500 vs Intel Xeon E5-2690

Core i5-8500 vs Xeon E5-2690 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2690 is faster than the Core i5-8500. Despite this, the Core i5-8500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-8500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8500. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-8500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2690. Also, the Core i5-8500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8500 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 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. For instance, the Core i5-8500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.