Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 vs Intel Core i7-13700K

Xeon E5-2690 v2 vs Core i7-13700K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-13700K beats the Xeon E5-2690 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-13700K has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-2690 v2. Indeed, the Core i7-13700K has 16 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Xeon E5-2690 v2. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2690 v2. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-13700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2690 v2. Also, the Core i7-13700K has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-13700K outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2690 v2 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 E5-2690 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.