Intel Core i7-2600K vs Intel Xeon E5-2630 v2

Core i7-2600K vs Xeon E5-2630 v2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2630 v2 beats the Core i7-2600K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-2600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2630 v2 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-2600K that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-2600K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-2600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2630 v2. Also, the Core i7-2600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2630 v2 outputs less heat than Core i7-2600K thanks to a slightly 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 i7-2600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.