Intel Xeon E5-1650 v4 vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

Xeon E5-1650 v4 vs Xeon E5-2689 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2689 performs better than the Xeon E5-1650 v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1650 v4 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2689 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Xeon E5-1650 v4 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1650 v4. The Xeon E5-2689 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1650 v4 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 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.