Intel Core i9-7940X vs Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4

Compare Intel Core X-series 14 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2660 v4

Price

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$ 300.00

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$ 6964.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5222 points

4% slightly better overall score

5000 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6170 points

26% slightly better gaming score

4860 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4938 points

5053 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4896 points

5066 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

261.54 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

201.57 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10511 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

6391 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1444 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

958 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

54% significantly higher clock speed

2.00 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

34% slightly higher turbo speed

3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

165 W

105 W

57% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

10% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB

35 MiB

40% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

324th of 1,089

348th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

2016 February

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 i9-7940X vs Xeon E5-2660 v4 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-7940X is faster than the Xeon E5-2660 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2660 v4 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-7940X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660 v4. Also, the Core i9-7940X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2660 v4 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.