Intel Core i7-7800X vs Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2

Core i7-7800X vs Xeon E5-1680 v2 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-1680 v2 performs better than the Core i7-7800X. Despite this, the Core i7-7800X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-1680 v2 has slightly more cores than the Core i7-7800X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1680 v2 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-7800X. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7800X. The Xeon E5-1680 v2 outputs less heat than Core i7-7800X 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 i7-7800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.