Intel Core i7-3770K vs Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3

Core i7-3770K vs Xeon E5-2640 v3 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2640 v3 performs better than the Core i7-3770K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3770K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-3770K. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-3770K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3770K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3770K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Also, the Core i7-3770K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-3770K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2640 v3 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-3770K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.