Intel Core i9-10920X vs Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4

Core i9-10920X vs Xeon E5-2697A v4 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 performs better than the Core i9-10920X. Despite this, the Core i9-10920X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i9-10920X has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-10920X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-10920X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Also, the Core i9-10920X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2697A v4 outputs less heat than Core i9-10920X thanks to a slightly 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. Indeed, the Core i9-10920X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.