Intel Core i9-7900X vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

Core i9-7900X vs Xeon E5-2689 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-7900X beats the Xeon E5-2689 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2689 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-7900X has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2689 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2689. The Xeon E5-2689 outputs less heat than Core i9-7900X thanks to a 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 i9-7900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.