Intel Core i9-9900 vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4

Core i9-9900 vs Xeon E5-2690 v4 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 beats the Core i9-9900 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-9900 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core i9-9900 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-9900. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9900 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Also, the Core i9-9900 has a much higher turbo speed. A Core i9-9900 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 v4 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.