Intel Core i7-8700 vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2

Core i7-8700 vs Xeon E5-2690 v2 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2690 v2 performs better than the Core i7-8700. Despite this, the Core i7-8700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i7-8700 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v2. Also, the Core i7-8700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8700 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 v2 CPU because of its significantly 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 i7-8700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.