Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 vs Intel Xeon E5-2690

Xeon E5-2680 v2 vs Xeon E5-2690 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2680 v2 performs better than the Xeon E5-2690. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2690 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2690 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2690. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v2. Also, the Xeon E5-2690 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2680 v2 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.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.