Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Intel Xeon Silver 4210R

Xeon E5-2696 v3 vs Xeon Silver 4210R comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon Silver 4210R is faster than the Xeon E5-2696 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2696 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores than the Xeon Silver 4210R. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has 18 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Xeon Silver 4210R. It also has more threads than the Xeon Silver 4210R. The Xeon Silver 4210R outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2696 v3 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.