Intel Core i7-4770K vs Intel Xeon E5-2660

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2660

Price

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$ 153.83

$ 149.95

$ 3.88 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2925 points

3233 points

10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4768 points

24% slightly better gaming score

3840 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2381 points

3029 points

27% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2286 points

2968 points

29% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

66.02 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

60.42 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3979 points

4080 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1227 points

128% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

538 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4080 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2763 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1280 points

180% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

457 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.50 GHz

59% significantly higher clock speed

2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

30% slightly higher turbo speed

3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W

13% slightly lower TDP

95 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

384 GiB

1100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

548th of 1,089

507th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-4770K vs Xeon E5-2660 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2660 performs better than the Core i7-4770K. Despite this, the Core i7-4770K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2660 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-4770K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4770K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4770K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2660. Also, the Core i7-4770K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4770K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2660 CPU because of its 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 i7-4770K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.