Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Intel Xeon Silver 4210R

Xeon E5-2690 v3 vs Xeon Silver 4210R benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon Silver 4210R beats the Xeon E5-2690 v3 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has slightly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Xeon Silver 4210R that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon Silver 4210R. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon Silver 4210R. Also, the Xeon E5-2690 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon Silver 4210R outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2690 v3 thanks to a 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 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.