Intel Core i7-3960X vs Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2

Core i7-3960X vs Xeon E5-2650 v2 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2650 v2 performs better than the Core i7-3960X. Despite this, the Core i7-3960X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2650 v2 has slightly more cores than the Core i7-3960X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 v2 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-3960X. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3960X. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3960X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2650 v2. Also, the Core i7-3960X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2650 v2 outputs less heat than Core i7-3960X thanks to a 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 i7-3960X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.