Intel Core i7-7660U vs Intel Xeon E5-450

Core i7-7660U vs Xeon E5-450 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-450 beats the Core i7-7660U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7660U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-450 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-7660U. Indeed, the Xeon E5-450 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-7660U. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-450 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-7660U. A Core i7-7660U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-450 CPU because of its significantly 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 i7-7660U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.