Intel Core i7-7700K vs Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3

Core i7-7700K vs Xeon E5-2620 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-7700K beats the Xeon E5-2620 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2620 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2620 v3 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-7700K that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7700K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-7700K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2620 v3. Also, the Core i7-7700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2620 v3 outputs less heat than Core i7-7700K thanks to a slightly 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 i7-7700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.