Intel Core i7-5960X vs Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3

Core i7-5960X vs Xeon E5-2698 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2698 v3 beats the Core i7-5960X in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-5960X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2698 v3 has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i7-5960X that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-5960X. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-5960X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2698 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2698 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2698 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.

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.