Intel Core i9-8950HK vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3

Core i9-8950HK vs Xeon E5-2690 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 beats the Core i9-8950HK in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-8950HK has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i9-8950HK that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-8950HK. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-8950HK has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2690 v3. Also, the Core i9-8950HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-8950HK CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 v3 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 i9-8950HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.