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

Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs Core i7-14700 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14700 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.

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. Despite this, the Core i7-14700 has a significantly higher turbo speed.

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.