Intel Core i7-7700K vs Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4

Core i7-7700K vs Xeon E5-1660 v4 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-1660 v4 performs better than the Core i7-7700K. Despite this, the Core i7-7700K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-7700K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7700K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-7700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-1660 v4. Also, the Core i7-7700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-7700K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1660 v4 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 i7-7700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.