Intel Core i7-3960X vs Intel Xeon W-2125

Core i7-3960X vs Xeon W-2125 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3960X beats the Xeon W-2125 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon W-2125 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-3960X has significantly more cores than the Xeon W-2125. Indeed, the Core i7-3960X has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon W-2125. It also has more threads than the Xeon W-2125. Our comparison shows that the Xeon W-2125 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3960X. Also, the Xeon W-2125 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon W-2125 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.

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.