Intel Core i9-11900K vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3

Core i9-11900K vs Xeon E5-2690 v3 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-11900K performs better than the Xeon E5-2690 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has significantly more cores than the Core i9-11900K. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i9-11900K. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-11900K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2690 v3. Also, the Core i9-11900K has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-11900K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 v3 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i9-11900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.