Intel Core i7-1165G7 vs Intel Xeon E5-2660

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 206.66
$ 149.95
$ 56.71 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3157 points
3233 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5503 points
43% significantly better gaming score
3840 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2492 points
3029 points
21% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2381 points
2968 points
24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

56.64 points
60.42 points
6% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4847 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4080 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1713 points
218% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
538 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4854 points
75% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2763 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1716 points
275% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
457 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz
27% slightly higher clock speed
2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
56% significantly higher turbo speed
3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
533% significantly lower TDP
95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
384 GiB
499% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

517th of 1,089
507th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i7
Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 August
2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i7-1165G7 vs Xeon E5-2660 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2660 is faster than the Core i7-1165G7. Despite this, the Core i7-1165G7 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2660 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-1165G7. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-1165G7. It also has more threads than the Core i7-1165G7. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-1165G7 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660. Also, the Core i7-1165G7 has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-1165G7 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2660 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 Core i7-1165G7 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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