Intel Core i7-11700 vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4

Core i7-11700 vs Xeon E5-2690 v4 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 beats the Core i7-11700 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-11700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-11700. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i7-11700. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11700. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-11700. Despite this, the Core i7-11700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-11700 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.

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. Indeed, the Core i7-11700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.