Intel Core i7-8700 vs Intel Xeon E5-2667 v4

Core i7-8700 vs Xeon E5-2667 v4 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8700 beats the Xeon E5-2667 v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2667 v4 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2667 v4 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-8700 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700. According to our data, the Core i7-8700 and Xeon E5-2667 v4 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-8700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8700 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2667 v4 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 i7-8700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.