Intel Core i7-8700K vs Intel Xeon E5-2630 v3

Core i7-8700K vs Xeon E5-2630 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2630 v3 beats the Core i7-8700K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-8700K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2630 v3 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-8700K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8700K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2630 v3. Also, the Core i7-8700K has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2630 v3 outputs less heat than Core i7-8700K 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 i7-8700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.