Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2 vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2

Xeon E5-1680 v2 vs Xeon E5-2690 v2 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2690 v2 performs better than the Xeon E5-1680 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1680 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-1680 v2. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Xeon E5-1680 v2. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1680 v2. 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.

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 E5-1680 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.