Intel Core i7-3930K vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W

Core i7-3930K vs Xeon E5-2687W comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2687W beats the Core i7-3930K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3930K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2687W 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 E5-2687W. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Core i7-3930K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2687W 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 i7-3930K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.