Intel Core i7-10710U vs Intel Xeon E5-2690

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i7 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3046 points

4263 points

39% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4440 points

5047 points

13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2617 points

3997 points

52% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2519 points

3919 points

55% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

70.12 points

73.79 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.1 GHz

2.9 GHz

163% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

23% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

800% significantly lower TDP

135 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

384 GiB

499% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

533rd of 1,089

413th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i7

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 August

2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-10710U vs Xeon E5-2690 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-10710U is faster than the Xeon E5-2690. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-10710U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-10710U. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10710U. Despite this, the Core i7-10710U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-10710U 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.

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 i7-10710U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.