Intel Core i7-3960X vs Intel Xeon E5-2690

Core i7-3960X vs Xeon E5-2690 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2690 is faster than the Core i7-3960X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3960X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2690 has slightly more cores than the Core i7-3960X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 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 E5-2690. Also, the Core i7-3960X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-3960X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 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 i7-3960X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.