Intel Xeon E5-2690 vs Intel Core i5-13420H

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i5 8 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

4263 points

5252 points

23% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5047 points

7672 points

52% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points

4530 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3919 points

4376 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

73.79 points

120.41 points

63% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz

38% slightly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

4.6 GHz

21% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

42% many more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

384 GiB

499% significantly more supported memory

64 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

413th of 1,089

316th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR5-5200

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2690 vs Core i5-13420H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2690 performs better than the Core i5-13420H. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E5-2690 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2690 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13420H. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has a slightly 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 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.