Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4

Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs Xeon E5-2697A v4 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 performs better than the Xeon E5-2696 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2696 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2696 v2. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has 16 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Xeon E5-2696 v2. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2696 v2.

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 E5-2696 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.