Intel Core i7-3770S vs Intel Xeon E5-2650

Core i7-3770S vs Xeon E5-2650 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2650 beats the Core i7-3770S in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-3770S has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2650 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-3770S has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3770S. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3770S has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2650. Also, the Core i7-3770S has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-3770S CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2650 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 i7-3770S has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.