Intel Core i7-3960X vs Intel Xeon X5670

Core i7-3960X vs Xeon X5670 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon X5670 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.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3960X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X5670. Also, the Core i7-3960X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon X5670 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-3960X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.