Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs Intel Core i7-14700

Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs Core i7-14700 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 beats the Core i7-14700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-14700 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-14700 has many more cores than the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Indeed, the Core i7-14700 has 20 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Xeon E5-2690 v4. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700.

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 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.