Intel Core i7-5930K vs Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3

Core i7-5930K vs Xeon E5-2670 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2670 v3 is faster than the Core i7-5930K. Despite this, the Core i7-5930K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2670 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i7-5930K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-5930K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-5930K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2670 v3. Also, the Core i7-5930K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2670 v3 outputs less heat than Core i7-5930K 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 i7-5930K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.