Intel Xeon E5-1650 vs Intel Xeon E5-2690

Xeon E5-1650 vs Xeon E5-2690 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2690 performs better than the Xeon E5-1650. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1650 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2690 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Xeon E5-1650 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1650. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-1650 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Xeon E5-1650 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. 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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.