Intel Core i7-860 vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W

Core i7-860 vs Xeon E5-2687W specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2687W beats the Core i7-860 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-860 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2687W has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-860 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-860. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2687W has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-860. Also, the Xeon E5-2687W has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-860 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2687W CPU because of its significantly 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 i7-860 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.