Intel Core i7-7800X vs Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3

Compare Intel Core X-series 6 core CPU vs Intel 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4493 points

4823 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5755 points

8% slightly better gaming score

5321 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4089 points

4658 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3970 points

4614 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6534 points

35% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

4806 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

110.00 points

152.03 points

38% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

20% slightly higher clock speed

2.90 GHz

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB

Identical

25 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

391st of 1,089

363rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-7800X vs Xeon E5-2666 v3 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 performs better than the Core i7-7800X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7800X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-7800X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7800X. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-7800X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2666 v3.

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.