Intel Xeon E5-2689 vs Intel Xeon E5-2690

Xeon E5-2689 vs Xeon E5-2690 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2690 is faster than the Xeon E5-2689. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2689 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. A Xeon E5-2689 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.

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 E5-2689 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.