Intel Core i7-5820K vs Intel Xeon E5-2690

Core i7-5820K vs Xeon E5-2690 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2690 performs better than the Core i7-5820K. Despite this, the Core i7-5820K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2690 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-5820K that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-5820K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-5820K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2690. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2690 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2690 outputs less heat than Core i7-5820K thanks to a 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 i7-5820K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.