Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs Intel Core i7-13700H

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i7 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6682 points
7252 points
8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6240 points
9095 points
45% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6819 points
1% slightly better multitasking score
6721 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6860 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score
6634 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

200.70 points
6% slightly higher Blender score
188.68 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

14
Identical
14

Threads

Number of logical processing units

28
40% slightly more threads
20

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
8% slightly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
5 GHz
42% much higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40
42% many more pcie lanes
28

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

211th of 1,089
174th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family
13th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600
DDR5-5200

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs Core i7-13700H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-13700H beats the Xeon E5-2690 v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 v4 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13700H. Despite this, the Core i7-13700H has a much higher turbo speed.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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