Intel Core i7-8700K vs Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3

Price

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$ 194.00

$ 189.95

$ 4.05 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5130 points

28% slightly better overall score

3996 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7103 points

68% significantly better gaming score

4213 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4499 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

3900 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4352 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

3849 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

126.15 points

129.03 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6462 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

5920 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1549 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

975 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6565 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5959 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1621 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

985 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

42% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

42% slightly higher turbo speed

3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

10% slightly lower TDP

105 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

768 GiB

499% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

335th of 1,089

436th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2014 August

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

Yes

Core i7-8700K vs Xeon E5-2660 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-8700K is faster than the Xeon E5-2660 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2660 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2660 v3 has significantly more cores with 10 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 slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2660 v3. Also, the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8700K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2660 v3 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-8700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.