Intel Core i9-7940X vs Intel Xeon E5-2670 v3

Core i9-7940X vs Xeon E5-2670 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2670 v3 beats the Core i9-7940X in overall performance. 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 slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2670 v3 has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2670 v3. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-7940X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2670 v3. Also, the Core i9-7940X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2670 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.