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General information Xeon E5-2690 Core i5-2500
Launched Q1 2012 Q4 2010
Used in Server Desktop
Factory Intel Intel
Socket LGA2011 LGA1155
Series Name Intel Xeon E5 Intel Core i5
Core Family Name Sandy Bridge-EP Sandy Bridge
Clock 2.9 GHz 12.1 % 3.3 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 3.8 GHz 0 % 3.7 GHz 2.6 %
Cores 8 0 % 4 50 %
Threads 16 0 % 4 75 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 135 W 0 % 95 W 29.6 %
Lithography 32 nm 0 % 32 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 8 × 32 kB Instruction
8 × 32 kB Data
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 8 × 256 kB
2 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 1 × 20 MB
1 × 6 MB
ECC Supported Yes No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Xeon E5-2690 Core i5-2500
Overall Score 50099 0 % 40411 19.3 %
Future Proof 28 % 0 % 21 % 25 %
Benchmark Score 6300 0 % 2667 57.7 %
Single Thread Score 1656.4 3.5 % 1717.2 0 %
Encrypting Data 3080.5 MB/s 0 % 1038.9 MB/s 66.3 %
Compressing Data 164.8 MB/s 0 % 65.6 MB/s 60.2 %
String objects sorting 24884.6 thousand/s 0 % 9003.7 thousand/s 63.8 %
Prime numbers generation 49.3 millions/s 0 % 23.9 millions/s 51.6 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 39370.9 millions/s 0 % 14582.6 millions/s 63 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 14680.7 millions/s 0 % 7479.8 millions/s 49.1 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Xeon E5-2690, Core i5-2500.

Average frames per second Xeon E5-2690 Core i5-2500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 103.5 FPS 74.8 FPS
High settings 165.6 FPS 119.6 FPS
Medium settings 207.0 FPS 149.5 FPS
Low settings 258.7 FPS 186.9 FPS
Difference 0 % 27.8 %

Grand Theft Auto V Frames per second

Comparison of FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) in game 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Grand Theft Auto V.

Grand Theft Auto V Xeon E5-2690 Core i5-2500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 138.9 FPS 121.8 FPS
High settings 222.2 FPS 194.9 FPS
Medium settings 277.7 FPS 243.7 FPS
Low settings 347.1 FPS 304.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 12.3 %
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