Intel Core i7-4790 vs Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3

Core i7-4790 vs Xeon E5-2660 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2660 v3 beats the Core i7-4790 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-4790 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-4790 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4790. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660 v3. Also, the Core i7-4790 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4790 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2660 v3 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 i7-4790 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.