Intel Core i7-5960X vs Intel Xeon E5-2667 v2

Core i7-5960X vs Xeon E5-2667 v2 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-5960X is faster than the Xeon E5-2667 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2667 v2 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 Xeon E5-2667 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-5960X. Also, the Xeon E5-2667 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2667 v2 outputs less heat than Core i7-5960X 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 i7-5960X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.