Intel Core i9-9900 vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

Core i9-9900 vs Xeon E5-2689 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2689 performs better than the Core i9-9900. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9900 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. A Core i9-9900 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2689 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 i9-9900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.