Intel Core i7-7700K vs Intel Xeon Silver 4110

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon Scalable 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 185.00
$ 105.71
$ 79.29 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3620 points
3% slightly better overall score
3511 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5762 points
29% slightly better gaming score
4440 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2983 points
3206 points
7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2864 points
3122 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.21 points
100.85 points
18% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5070 points
5071 points
0.02% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1524 points
120% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
691 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5174 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4624 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1596 points
92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
829 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.2 GHz
100% significantly higher clock speed
2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
49% significantly higher turbo speed
3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
85 W
11% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
48
200% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
6
200% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
768 GiB
1100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

471st of 1,089
481st of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i7
Xeon Scalable

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i7-7700K vs Xeon Silver 4110 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-7700K beats the Xeon Silver 4110 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Silver 4110 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon Silver 4110 has significantly more cores with 8 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 Silver 4110. Also, the Core i7-7700K has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Xeon Silver 4110 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.

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