Intel Core i9-10900K vs Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4

Core i9-10900K vs Xeon E5-2697A v4 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 beats the Core i9-10900K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-10900K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more cores than the Core i9-10900K. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has 16 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core i9-10900K. It also has more threads than the Core i9-10900K. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-10900K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Also, the Core i9-10900K has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-10900K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697A v4 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-10900K. The Xeon E5-2697A v4 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i9-10900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.