Intel Core i7-2600K vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

Core i7-2600K vs Xeon E5-2689 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2689 beats the Core i7-2600K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2600K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2689 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-2600K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-2600K. A Core i7-2600K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2689 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 i7-2600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.