Intel Core i7-5960X vs Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3

Core i7-5960X vs Xeon E5-2676 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-5960X is faster than the Xeon E5-2676 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2676 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2676 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i7-5960X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-5960X. The Xeon E5-2676 v3 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.