Intel Core i7-7700K vs Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4

Core i7-7700K vs Xeon E5-2640 v4 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-7700K performs better than the Xeon E5-2640 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 v4 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2640 v4 has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i7-7700K that 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 v4. Also, the Core i7-7700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2640 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.