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

Xeon E5-2697 v2 vs Xeon E5-2697A v4 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 beats the Xeon E5-2697 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697 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 E5-2697 v2. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has 16 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Xeon E5-2697 v2. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2697 v2. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2697 v2 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697A v4 CPU because of its 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 E5-2697 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.