Intel Core i7-9700K vs Intel Xeon E5-2640 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 E5-2640 v3

Price

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$ 199.43

$ 63.20

$ 136.23 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5644 points

11% slightly better overall score

5079 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8019 points

54% significantly better gaming score

5205 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4848 points

5069 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4655 points

5131 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.80 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

113.01 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7073 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

5241 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1627 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1004 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7273 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5384 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1702 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1040 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

3.6 GHz

38% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

44% significantly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

90 W

5% slightly lower TDP

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

282nd of 1,089

341st 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

2018 November

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-9700K vs Xeon E5-2640 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-9700K is faster than the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 v3 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-9700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Also, the Core i7-9700K has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2640 v3 outputs less heat than Core i7-9700K thanks to a slightly 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 i7-9700K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.