Intel Core i9-8950HK vs Intel Xeon E5-2690

Core i9-8950HK vs Xeon E5-2690 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-8950HK beats the Xeon E5-2690 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i9-8950HK has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-8950HK. In terms of clock speed, the Core i9-8950HK and Xeon E5-2690 are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i9-8950HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-8950HK CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 CPU because of its significantly 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 i9-8950HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.