Intel Xeon E5-2670 v2 vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

Xeon E5-2670 v2 vs Xeon E5-2689 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2689 beats the Xeon E5-2670 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2670 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2670 v2 has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2689 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2689. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 E5-2670 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.