Intel Core i7-2700K vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Core i7-2700K vs Xeon E3-1230 V2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1230 V2 beats the Core i7-2700K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2700K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-2700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1230 V2.

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 i7-2700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.