Intel Core i7-3770K vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3

Core i7-3770K vs Xeon E5-2696 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v3 beats the Core i7-3770K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3770K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2696 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 cores compared to the Core i7-3770K that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3770K. A Core i7-3770K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2696 v3 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 i7-3770K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.