Intel Xeon E5-2650 vs Intel Core i7 X 990

Xeon E5-2650 vs Core i7 X 990 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7 X 990 is faster than the Xeon E5-2650. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2650 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2650 has slightly more cores than the Core i7 X 990. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7 X 990. It also has more threads than the Core i7 X 990. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7 X 990 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2650.

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 E5-2650 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.