Intel Core i7-10700K vs Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4

Core i7-10700K vs Xeon E5-2697A v4 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 is faster than the Core i7-10700K. Despite this, the Core i7-10700K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 Core i7-10700K that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-10700K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-10700K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Also, the Core i7-10700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-10700K 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. The info from our database shows that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-10700K. The Xeon E5-2697A v4 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Core i7-10700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.