Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 vs Intel Xeon Silver 4210R

Xeon E5-2680 v4 vs Xeon Silver 4210R benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon Silver 4210R performs better than the Xeon E5-2680 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v4 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Xeon Silver 4210R has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon Silver 4210R. According to our data, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 and Xeon Silver 4210R have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon Silver 4210R outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2680 v4 thanks to a 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 E5-2680 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.