Intel Core i7-8700K vs Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3

Core i7-8700K vs Xeon E5-2678 v3 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2678 v3 performs better than the Core i7-8700K. Despite this, the Core i7-8700K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-8700K. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-8700K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700K. A Core i7-8700K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2678 v3 CPU because of its slightly 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 i7-8700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.