Intel Core i7-7660U vs Intel Xeon X5670

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i7 2 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1440 points
3118 points
116% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2728 points
4250 points
55% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1086 points
2751 points
153% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1037 points
2664 points
156% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.65 points
51.81 points
87% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2293 points
2417 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1141 points
142% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
470 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2285 points
2310 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1149 points
134% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
491 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
6
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
2.93 GHz
17% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed
3.33 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
533% significantly lower TDP
95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
3
49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
288 GiB
800% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

825th of 1,089
522nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i7
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i7-7660U vs Xeon X5670 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon X5670 is faster than the Core i7-7660U. 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 X5670 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-7660U. Indeed, the Xeon X5670 has 6 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-7660U. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7660U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon X5670 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-7660U. Despite this, the Core i7-7660U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-7660U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5670 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-7660U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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