Intel Xeon E5-2689 vs Intel Xeon Silver 4114

Xeon E5-2689 vs Xeon Silver 4114 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2689 performs better than the Xeon Silver 4114. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Silver 4114 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon Silver 4114 has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2689 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2689. The Xeon Silver 4114 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2689 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 E5-2689 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.