Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs Xeon E5-2689 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 beats the Xeon E5-2689 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2689 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. A Xeon E5-2640 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 E5-2640 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.