Intel Core i9-7940X vs Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3

Core i9-7940X vs Xeon E5-2640 v3 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2640 v3 performs better than the Core i9-7940X. Despite this, the Core i9-7940X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-7940X has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2640 v3 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2640 v3. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-7940X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640 v3. Also, the Core i9-7940X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2640 v3 outputs less heat than Core i9-7940X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i9-7940X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.