Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 vs Intel Xeon E5-2697 v2

Xeon E5-2690 v2 vs Xeon E5-2697 v2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 beats the Xeon E5-2697 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has slightly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2690 v2. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2697 v2. Also, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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.