Intel Core i7-7700K vs Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3

Core i7-7700K vs Xeon E5-2640 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 is faster 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 E5-2640 v3 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Also, the Core i7-7700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2640 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.

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 i7-7700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.