Intel Core i7-7700 vs Intel Xeon E5-2660

Core i7-7700 vs Xeon E5-2660 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-7700 is faster than the Xeon E5-2660. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2660 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2660 has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-7700 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7700. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-7700 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660. Also, the Core i7-7700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-7700 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2660 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.