Intel Xeon E5-2640 vs Intel Xeon E5-2690

Xeon E5-2640 vs Xeon E5-2690 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 beats the Xeon E5-2640 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 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 E5-2640 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2640. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2690 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640. Also, the Xeon E5-2690 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2640 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.

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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.