Intel Core i7-2600K vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W

Core i7-2600K vs Xeon E5-2687W benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2687W is faster than the Core i7-2600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2600K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2687W has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-2600K that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-2600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-2600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2687W. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. A Core i7-2600K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2687W 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 i7-2600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.