Intel Core i7-8700K vs Intel Xeon E5-2637 v4

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Price

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$ 194.00
$ 5033.00 significantly less expensive
$ 5227.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5130 points
4% slightly better overall score
4888 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7103 points
21% slightly better gaming score
5848 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4499 points
4576 points
1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4352 points
4485 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

126.15 points
84% significantly higher Blender score
68.37 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6462 points
71% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
3758 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1549 points
109% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
741 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6565 points
56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4183 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1621 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1122 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed
3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
27% slightly higher turbo speed
3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
42% slightly lower TDP
135 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
40
150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

339th of 1,093
361st of 1,093

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7
Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2016 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

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