Intel Core i9-10900X vs Intel Xeon E5-2690

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Physical Specifications

Socket Intel Socket 2066 Intel Socket 2011
Foundry Intel Intel
Process size 14 nm 32 nm
Transistors unknown 2,270 million
Die size unknown 435 mm²
Package FC-LGA2066 FC-LGA10

Performance

Frequency 3.7 GHz 2.9 GHz
Turbo clock up to 4.7 GHz up to 3.8 GHz
Base clock 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 37.0x 29.0x
Multiplier unlocked Yes No
TDP 165 W 135 W
FP32 1,504.0 GFLOPS —
Voltage — 1.35 V

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Desktop Server/Workstation
Production status Active unknown
Release date Oct 19th, 2019 Mar 6th, 2012
Codename Cascade Lake-X Sandy Bridge-EP
Generation Core i9 Extreme Xeon E5
Part unknown SR0HASR0L0
Memory support DDR4 Quad-channel DDR3 Quad-channel
ECC memory No Yes
PCI Express Gen 3 Gen 3

Cores

Total Cores 10 8
Total Threads 20 16
SMP # CPUs 1 2
Integrated graphics — —

Cache

Cache L1 64K (per core) 64K (per core)
Cache L2 1MB (per core) 256K (per core)
Cache L3 19.25MB (shared) 20MB (shared)

Notes

Notes This processor comes with an unlocked BCLK multiplier, allowing users to set the multiplier value higher than shipped value, to facilitate better overclocking. —

Features & Technologies

8.0GT/s QPI — Yes
AES-NI Yes Yes
AVX Yes Yes
AVX-512 Yes —
AVX2 Yes —
BMI1 Yes —
BMI2 Yes —
Boost 2.0 Yes —
Boost 3.0 Yes —
CLMUL Yes —
EIST Yes Yes
F16C Yes —
FMA3 Yes —
HTT Yes Yes
Intel 64 Yes Yes
MMX Yes Yes
SSE Yes Yes
SSE2 Yes Yes
SSE3 Yes Yes
SSE4.2 Yes Yes
SSSE3 Yes Yes
TSX Yes —
TXT Yes Yes
VT-d Yes Yes
VT-x Yes Yes
XD bit Yes Yes

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