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

Xeon E5-2680 v2 vs Xeon E5-2690 v2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 beats the Xeon E5-2680 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v2. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Xeon E5-2680 v2 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 v2 CPU because of its slightly 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 E5-2680 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.