Intel Core i7-8700K vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

Core i7-8700K vs Xeon E5-2696 v2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8700K beats the Xeon E5-2696 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2696 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-8700K. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-8700K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700K.

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.