Intel Xeon E5-2689 vs Intel Xeon X5675

Xeon E5-2689 vs Xeon X5675 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon X5675 is faster than the Xeon E5-2689. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2689 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2689 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Xeon X5675 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon X5675. The Xeon X5675 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.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2689 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.