Intel Core i7-860 vs Intel Xeon E5-440

Core i7-860 vs Xeon E5-440 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-440 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 these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-860 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-440 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-860.

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.