Intel Core i9-10885H vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2

Core i9-10885H vs Xeon E5-2690 v2 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2690 v2 performs better than the Core i9-10885H. Despite this, the Core i9-10885H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i9-10885H that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-10885H. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-10885H. Despite this, the Core i9-10885H has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-10885H 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 i9-10885H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.