Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2690

Xeon E5-1650 v3 vs Xeon E5-2690 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 beats the Xeon E5-1650 v3 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1650 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon E5-1650 v3 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1650 v3. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1650 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2690. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Xeon E5-2690 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1650 v3 thanks to a slightly 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 Xeon E5-1650 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.