Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs Intel Xeon Silver 4210R

Xeon E5-2690 v4 vs Xeon Silver 4210R specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon Silver 4210R performs better than the Xeon E5-2690 v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Xeon Silver 4210R has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon Silver 4210R. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Silver 4210R. Also, the Xeon E5-2690 v4 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon Silver 4210R outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2690 v4 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.