Intel Core i7-3770 vs Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3

Core i7-3770 vs Xeon E5-2666 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 is faster than the Core i7-3770. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3770 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-3770 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3770. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3770 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2666 v3. In terms of cache, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-3770. The Xeon E5-2666 v3 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i7-3770 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.