Intel Core i7-10700KF vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4

Core i7-10700KF vs Xeon E5-2690 v4 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 is faster than the Core i7-10700KF. Despite this, the Core i7-10700KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core i7-10700KF that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-10700KF. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-10700KF has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Also, the Core i7-10700KF has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-10700KF CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 v4 CPU because of its slightly 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 i7-10700KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.