Intel Core i9-7900X vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W

Core i9-7900X vs Xeon E5-2687W benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-7900X beats the Xeon E5-2687W in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2687W in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-7900X has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2687W has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2687W. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-7900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2687W. Also, the Core i9-7900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-7900X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2687W CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. 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 i9-7900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.