Intel Core i7-5960X vs Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3

Core i7-5960X vs Xeon E5-2666 v3 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-5960X performs better than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2666 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i7-5960X that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-5960X. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-5960X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2666 v3.

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 i7-5960X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.