Intel Xeon E5-2690 vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2

Xeon E5-2690 vs Xeon E5-2690 v2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2690 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2690. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2690 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2690 v2 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.

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