Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2 vs Intel Xeon W-11855M

Xeon E5-2690 v2 vs Xeon W-11855M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon W-11855M 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 Xeon E5-2690 v2 has significantly more cores than the Xeon W-11855M. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon W-11855M. It also has more threads than the Xeon W-11855M. Our comparison shows that the Xeon W-11855M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690 v2. Also, the Xeon W-11855M has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon W-11855M outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2690 v2 thanks to a significantly 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.