Intel Core i7-7820X vs Intel Xeon E5-2698 v3

Core i7-7820X vs Xeon E5-2698 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2698 v3 is faster than the Core i7-7820X. Despite this, the Core i7-7820X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2698 v3 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-7820X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2698 v3 has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i7-7820X. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7820X. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-7820X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2698 v3. Also, the Core i7-7820X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2698 v3 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.

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 i7-7820X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.