Intel Core i9-7900X vs Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4

Core i9-7900X vs Xeon E5-2697A v4 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 beats the Core i9-7900X in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-7900X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more cores than the Core i9-7900X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has 16 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core i9-7900X. It also has more threads than the Core i9-7900X. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-7900X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Also, the Core i9-7900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-7900X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697A v4 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.