Intel Xeon Silver 4210R vs Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4

Xeon Silver 4210R vs Xeon E5-2697A v4 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 performs better than the Xeon Silver 4210R. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Silver 4210R in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Xeon Silver 4210R that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon Silver 4210R. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Silver 4210R. Also, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon Silver 4210R CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697A v4 CPU because of its significantly 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 Silver 4210R has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.