Intel Xeon E7-8850 v2 vs Intel Core i5-4690T. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Xeon E7 Intel Core i5
• Generation
  4 4
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E7 v2 Intel Core i 4000

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  2.30 GHz 2.50 GHz
• CPU Cores
  12 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  2.80 GHz 3.50 GHz
• CPU Threads
  24 4
• Hyperthreading
  Yes No
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  no iGPU Intel HD Graphics 4600
• GPU frequency
  0.35 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.20 GHz
• Execution units
  20
• Shader
  160
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 2 GB
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  7.5
• DirectX Version
  11.1
• Technology
  22 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2013

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-4690T and Intel Xeon E7-8850 v2. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 DDR3-1600
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  4 2
• PCIe version
  3.0
• PCIe lanes
  16

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon E7-8850 v2 and Intel Core i5-4690T to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  105 W 45 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon E7-8850 v2 and Intel Xeon E7-8850 v2, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  24.00 MB 6.00 MB
• Architecture
  Ivy Bridge EX Haswell S
• Technology
  22 nm 22 nm
• Socket
  LGA 2011 LGA 1150
• Release date
  Q1/2014 Q2/2014