Intel Core i7-7700K vs Intel Xeon E5-2690

Core i7-7700K vs Xeon E5-2690 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2690 beats the Core i7-7700K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-7700K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 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 significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2690. Also, the Core i7-7700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-7700K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 CPU because of its 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.