Intel Core i7-5960X vs Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4

Core i7-5960X vs Xeon E5-2673 v4 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2673 v4 beats the Core i7-5960X in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-5960X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2673 v4 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-5960X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2673 v4 has 20 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i7-5960X. It also has more threads than the Core i7-5960X. The Xeon E5-2673 v4 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.

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.