Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2

Xeon E5-2640 v3 vs Xeon E5-2690 v2 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2640 v3 performs better than the Xeon E5-2690 v2. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Xeon E5-2640 v3. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2640 v3. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Also, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2640 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 v2 CPU because of its significantly 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 E5-2640 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.