Intel Core i7-9700 vs Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs Intel 10 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

5190 points

7% slightly better overall score

4823 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7573 points

42% slightly better gaming score

5321 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4403 points

4658 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4217 points

4614 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5171 points

7% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

4806 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.42 points

152.03 points

42% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

150% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

2.90 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

2.5 MiB

25% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

25 MiB

108% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

326th of 1,089

363rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-9700 vs Xeon E5-2666 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-9700 beats the Xeon E5-2666 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2666 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7-9700 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-9700. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-9700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. In terms of cache, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-9700. The Xeon E5-2666 v3 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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. For instance, the Core i7-9700 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.