Intel Core i7-10700T vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 269.00
$ 155.99
$ 113.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5467 points
7% slightly better overall score
5073 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7011 points
29% slightly better gaming score
5423 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4964 points
0.65% slightly better multitasking score
4932 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4832 points
4878 points
0.95% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

111.67 points
4% slightly higher Blender score
106.45 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5641 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4225 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1421 points
139% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
593 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
10
25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
20
25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz
3 GHz
49% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
25% slightly higher turbo speed
3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
271% significantly lower TDP
130 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
40
150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
768 GiB
499% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

297th of 1,089
342nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i7
Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i7-10700T vs Xeon E5-2690 v2 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-10700T is faster than the Xeon E5-2690 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-10700T has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-10700T. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10700T. Despite this, the Core i7-10700T has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-10700T CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 v2 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 i7-10700T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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