Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2 vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2

Xeon E5-1650 v2 vs Xeon E5-2690 v2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 beats the Xeon E5-1650 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1650 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E5-1650 v2 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1650 v2. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1650 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2690 v2. Also, the Xeon E5-1650 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1650 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.