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

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

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9900K beats the Xeon E5-2690 v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 v4 in all gaming tests too.

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 i9-9900K that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-9900K. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Also, the Core i9-9900K has a much higher turbo speed. A Core i9-9900K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 v4 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i9-9900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.