Intel Core i7-2600 vs Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2

Core i7-2600 vs Xeon E3-1240 V2 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1240 V2 is faster than the Core i7-2600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2600 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1240 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-2600.

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 i7-2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.