Intel Core i7-7700 vs Intel Xeon E5-2690

Core i7-7700 vs Xeon E5-2690 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2690 performs better than the Core i7-7700. Despite this, the Core i7-7700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2690 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-7700. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2690 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-7700. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7700. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690. Also, the Core i7-7700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-7700 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-7700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.