Intel Core i7-7700K vs Intel Xeon E5-2630 v4

Core i7-7700K vs Xeon E5-2630 v4 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2630 v4 beats the Core i7-7700K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-7700K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2630 v4 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-7700K. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2630 v4 has 10 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-7700K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7700K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-7700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2630 v4. Also, the Core i7-7700K has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2630 v4 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.

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.