Intel Core i7-5960X vs Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3

Core i7-5960X vs Xeon E5-2699 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 is faster than the Core i7-5960X. 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 E5-2699 v3 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-5960X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has 18 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i7-5960X. 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 E5-2699 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-5960X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2699 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.