Intel Core i7-5960X vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2

Core i7-5960X vs Xeon E5-2690 v2 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-5960X is faster than the Xeon E5-2690 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has slightly more cores than the Core i7-5960X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i7-5960X. It also has more threads than the Core i7-5960X. Both the Core i7-5960X and Xeon E5-2690 v2 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2690 v2 outputs less heat than Core i7-5960X thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-5960X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.