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

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Price

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$ 439.00
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$ 1277.90

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8711 points
4% slightly better overall score
8324 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9698 points
56% significantly better gaming score
6186 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8360 points
9116 points
9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8247 points
9598 points
16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

226.11 points
0.75% slightly higher Blender score
224.42 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9168 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
8264 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1783 points
67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1062 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
16
60% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
32
60% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
42% slightly higher clock speed
2.60 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz
47% significantly higher turbo speed
3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W
16% slightly lower TDP
145 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
40
150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB
4 MiB
60% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

20 MiB
40 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

124th of 1,109
144th of 1,109

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i9
Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933
DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

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