Intel Xeon E5-2689 vs Intel Xeon X5680

Xeon E5-2689 vs Xeon X5680 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon X5680 beats the Xeon E5-2689 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2689 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2689 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon X5680 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon X5680. A Xeon E5-2689 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5680 CPU because of its 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.