Intel Core i9-10900 vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4

Core i9-10900 vs Xeon E5-2680 v4 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-10900 is faster than the Xeon E5-2680 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v4 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has slightly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core i9-10900 that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-10900. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-10900 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2680 v4. Also, the Core i9-10900 has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-10900 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2680 v4 CPU because of its significantly 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 i9-10900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.