Intel Core i7-7800X vs Intel Xeon E5-2643 v2

Core i7-7800X vs Xeon E5-2643 v2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2643 v2 beats the Core i7-7800X in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-7800X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Core i7-7800X and Xeon E5-2643 v2 are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i7-7800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2643 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.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-7800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.