Intel Core i7-3960X vs Intel Xeon Silver 4110

Core i7-3960X vs Xeon Silver 4110 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3960X beats the Xeon Silver 4110 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Silver 4110 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon Silver 4110 has slightly more cores than the Core i7-3960X. Indeed, the Xeon Silver 4110 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-3960X. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3960X. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3960X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Silver 4110. Also, the Core i7-3960X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon Silver 4110 outputs less heat than Core i7-3960X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 i7-3960X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.