Intel Core i7-7820X vs Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4

Core i7-7820X vs Xeon E5-2673 v4 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2673 v4 performs better than the Core i7-7820X. Despite this, the Core i7-7820X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2673 v4 has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Core i7-7820X that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7820X. The Xeon E5-2673 v4 outputs less heat than Core i7-7820X thanks to a slightly 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 i7-7820X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.