Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W

Xeon E5-2690 v2 vs Xeon E5-2687W benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 beats the Xeon E5-2687W in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2687W in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2687W has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2687W. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2687W has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v2. Also, the Xeon E5-2687W has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2690 v2 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2687W CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.