Intel Core i7-7800X vs Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3

Core i7-7800X vs Xeon E5-2640 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 beats the Core i7-7800X in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-7800X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-7800X 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 E5-2640 v3. Also, the Core i7-7800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2640 v3 outputs less heat than Core i7-7800X thanks to a significantly 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 i7-7800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.