Intel Core i5-9400F vs Intel Xeon E5-2690

Core i5-9400F vs Xeon E5-2690 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2690 performs better than the Core i5-9400F. Despite this, the Core i5-9400F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2690 has slightly more cores than the Core i5-9400F. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-9400F. It also has more threads than the Core i5-9400F. According to our data, the Core i5-9400F and Xeon E5-2690 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i5-9400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-9400F 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 i5-9400F has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.