Intel Core i9-10980HK vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2

Core i9-10980HK vs Xeon E5-2690 v2 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-10980HK is faster than the Xeon E5-2690 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 v2 in all gaming tests too.

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 i9-10980HK that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-10980HK. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-10980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-10980HK has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-10980HK 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.

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 i9-10980HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.