Intel Xeon E5-2690 vs Intel Core i5-13600K

Xeon E5-2690 vs Core i5-13600K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13600K beats the Xeon E5-2690 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2690 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon E5-2690 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-13600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690. Also, the Core i5-13600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-13600K outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2690 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.