Intel Core i7-5930K vs Intel Xeon E5-2690

Core i7-5930K vs Xeon E5-2690 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 beats the Core i7-5930K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-5930K 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 i7-5930K that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-5930K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-5930K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to 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 i7-5930K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-5930K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.