Intel Core i7-7700 vs Intel Xeon E5-1650

Core i7-7700 vs Xeon E5-1650 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1650 beats the Core i7-7700 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-7700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-1650 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-7700 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7700. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-7700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-1650. Also, the Core i7-7700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-7700 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1650 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 i7-7700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.