Intel Core i9-7900X vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4

Core i9-7900X vs Xeon E5-2690 v4 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 beats the Core i9-7900X in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-7900X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i9-7900X has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-7900X. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-7900X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Also, the Core i9-7900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2690 v4 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.