Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs Intel Xeon Silver 4210R

Xeon E5-2696 v2 vs Xeon Silver 4210R benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon Silver 4210R 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has slightly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Xeon Silver 4210R has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon Silver 4210R.

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