Intel Core i7-950 vs Intel Xeon W3550

Core i7-950 vs Xeon W3550 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon W3550 is faster than the Core i7-950. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-950 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. According to our data, the Core i7-950 and Xeon W3550 have the same clock speed. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i7-950 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.