Intel Xeon E5-2683 v4 vs Intel Xeon E5-2690

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 16 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2690

Price

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$ 998.95

$ 141.61

$ 857.34 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5909 points

38% slightly better overall score

4263 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5194 points

2% slightly better gaming score

5047 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6150 points

53% significantly better multitasking score

3997 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6231 points

58% significantly better heavy workload score

3919 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

200.55 points

171% significantly higher Blender score

73.79 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6450 points

104% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3154 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

807 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

528 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7020 points

101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3487 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

933 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

586 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

2.9 GHz

38% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3 GHz

3.8 GHz

26% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

12% slightly lower TDP

135 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

259th of 1,089

413th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2683 v4 vs Xeon E5-2690 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2683 v4 beats the Xeon E5-2690 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2690 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2683 v4 has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2690 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2690. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2690 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2683 v4. Also, the Xeon E5-2690 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2683 v4 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.

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 E5-2683 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.