Intel Core i7-870 vs Intel Xeon E5-2609 v3

Core i7-870 vs Xeon E5-2609 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-870 beats the Xeon E5-2609 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2609 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2609 v3 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-870 that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-870 has more threads than the Xeon E5-2609 v3. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-870 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2609 v3. The Xeon E5-2609 v3 outputs less heat than Core i7-870 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 i7-870 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.