Intel Core i7-8700T vs Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2945 points
5079 points
72% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4207 points
5205 points
23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2558 points
5069 points
98% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2473 points
5131 points
107% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

92.37 points
113.01 points
22% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4790 points
5241 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1265 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1004 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4733 points
5384 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1336 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1040 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
2.6 GHz
8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
17% slightly higher turbo speed
3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
157% significantly lower TDP
90 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
40
150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
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

546th of 1,089
341st 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

2018 May
2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i7-8700T vs Xeon E5-2640 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 beats the Core i7-8700T in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-8700T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has slightly more cores than the Core i7-8700T. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-8700T. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700T. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2640 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 E5-2640 v3 CPU because of its significantly 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 i7-8700T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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