Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

Xeon E5-2630 v3 vs Xeon E5-2689 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2630 v3 is faster than the Xeon E5-2689. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2689 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. A Xeon E5-2630 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2689 CPU because of its 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 E5-2630 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.