Intel Core i7-7800X vs Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4

Core i7-7800X vs Xeon E5-1660 v4 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-1660 v4 is faster than the Core i7-7800X. Despite this, the Core i7-7800X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-1660 v4 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-7800X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7800X. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7800X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-1660 v4. Also, the Core i7-7800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i7-7800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.