Intel Core i9-7940X vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

Core i9-7940X vs Xeon E5-2696 v2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2696 v2 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 E5-2696 v2 has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2696 v2.

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.