Intel Core i9-7940X vs Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3

Core i9-7940X vs Xeon E5-1650 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-7940X is faster than the Xeon E5-1650 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1650 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-7940X has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-1650 v3. Indeed, the Core i9-7940X has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon E5-1650 v3. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1650 v3. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1650 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-7940X. Despite this, the Core i9-7940X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-1650 v3 outputs less heat than Core i9-7940X 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. Indeed, the Core i9-7940X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.