Intel Core i7-7800X vs Intel Xeon E5-2637 v3

Core i7-7800X vs Xeon E5-2637 v3 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2637 v3 performs better 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 Core i7-7800X has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2637 v3 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2637 v3. According to our data, the Core i7-7800X and Xeon E5-2637 v3 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-7800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2637 v3 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.