Intel Core i7-9700F vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2

Core i7-9700F vs Xeon E5-2690 v2 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-9700F performs better 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 i7-9700F. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i7-9700F. It also has more threads than the Core i7-9700F. In terms of clock speed, the Core i7-9700F and Xeon E5-2690 v2 are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i7-9700F has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-9700F 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.

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. For instance, the Core i7-9700F has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.