Intel Core i7-11700K vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2

Core i7-11700K vs Xeon E5-2680 v2 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-11700K is faster than the Xeon E5-2680 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-11700K has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11700K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v2. Also, the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2680 v2 outputs less heat than Core i7-11700K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-11700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.