Intel Core i7-3930K vs Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2

Core i7-3930K vs Xeon E5-2650 v2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2650 v2 beats the Core i7-3930K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-3930K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2650 v2 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-3930K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3930K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3930K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2650 v2. Also, the Core i7-3930K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2650 v2 outputs less heat than Core i7-3930K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-3930K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.