Intel Core i7-10700 vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

Core i7-10700 vs Xeon E5-2689 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10700 beats the Xeon E5-2689 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2689 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. A Core i7-10700 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2689 CPU because of its significantly 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 i7-10700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.