Intel Core i7-960 vs Intel Xeon E5-2609 v3

Core i7-960 vs Xeon E5-2609 v3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-960 beats the Xeon E5-2609 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2609 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2609 v3 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-960 that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-960 has more threads than the Xeon E5-2609 v3. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-960 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2609 v3. The Xeon E5-2609 v3 outputs less heat than Core i7-960 thanks to a 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 i7-960 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.