Intel Core i9-9900K vs Intel Xeon E5-1650 v4

Core i9-9900K vs Xeon E5-1650 v4 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9900K beats the Xeon E5-1650 v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1650 v4 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-9900K has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-1650 v4. Indeed, the Core i9-9900K has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon E5-1650 v4. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1650 v4. Both the Core i9-9900K and Xeon E5-1650 v4 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-9900K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1650 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 i9-9900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.