Intel Core i7-8700T vs Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3

Core i7-8700T vs Xeon E5-1660 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1660 v3 beats the Core i7-8700T in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-8700T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-8700T that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8700T. Despite this, the Core i7-8700T has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8700T CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1660 v3 CPU because of its significantly 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 i7-8700T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.