Intel Xeon E5-2690 vs Intel Xeon X5675

Xeon E5-2690 vs Xeon X5675 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon X5675 performs better than the Xeon E5-2690. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2690 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2690 has slightly more cores than the Xeon X5675. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon X5675. It also has more threads than the Xeon X5675. Our comparison shows that the Xeon X5675 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 X5675 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.