Intel Core i7-8700K vs Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2

Core i7-8700K vs Xeon E5-2650 v2 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-8700K is faster than the Xeon E5-2650 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2650 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2650 v2 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2650 v2. Also, the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i7-8700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.