Intel Core i7-4790K vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3

Core i7-4790K vs Xeon E5-2690 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 is faster than the Core i7-4790K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4790K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i7-4790K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4790K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-4790K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v3. Also, the Core i7-4790K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4790K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 v3 CPU because of its significantly 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 i7-4790K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.