Intel Core i7-3930K vs Intel Xeon E5-2643

Core i7-3930K vs Xeon E5-2643 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3930K is faster than the Xeon E5-2643. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2643 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-3930K has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-2643. Indeed, the Core i7-3930K has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E5-2643. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2643. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2643 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3930K. Despite this, the Core i7-3930K has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i7-3930K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.