Intel Core i7-5960X vs Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3

Core i7-5960X vs Xeon E5-2697 v3 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2697 v3 performs better than the Core i7-5960X. Despite this, the Core i7-5960X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i7-5960X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-5960X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-5960X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-5960X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697 v3 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-5960X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.