Intel Core i7-5960X vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2

Core i7-5960X vs Xeon E5-2680 v2 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-5960X performs better than the Xeon E5-2680 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2680 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-5960X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-5960X. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-5960X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2680 v2. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2680 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.