Intel Core i7-8086K vs Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3

Core i7-8086K vs Xeon E5-2630 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2630 v3 beats the Core i7-8086K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-8086K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2630 v3 has slightly more cores than the Core i7-8086K. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2630 v3 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-8086K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8086K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-8086K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2630 v3. Also, the Core i7-8086K has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2630 v3 outputs less heat than Core i7-8086K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-8086K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.