Intel Core i7-9700F vs Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i7 8 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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Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3

Price

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$ 246.50

$ 199.26

$ 47.24 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5091 points

15% slightly better overall score

4392 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7520 points

39% slightly better gaming score

5377 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4300 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

4064 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4118 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

3979 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

109.06 points

148.95 points

36% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6336 points

8091 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1492 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1373 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6401 points

7100 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1584 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1291 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

Identical

3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

34% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

115% significantly lower TDP

140 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

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

339th of 1,089

401st of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i7

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-9700F vs Xeon E5-1660 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-9700F is faster than the Xeon E5-1660 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1660 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon E5-1660 v3 has more threads. Both the Core i7-9700F and Xeon E5-1660 v3 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-9700F has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-9700F 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.

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