Intel Core i9-7940X vs Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3

Compare Intel Core X-series 14 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3

Price

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$ 300.00

$ 255.59

$ 44.41 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5222 points

5860 points

12% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6170 points

26% slightly better gaming score

4866 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4938 points

6204 points

25% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4896 points

6340 points

29% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

261.54 points

35% slightly higher Blender score

192.94 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9233 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

7657 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1299 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1060 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10511 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7404 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1444 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1086 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

19% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

19% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

165 W

145 W

13% slightly 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

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

768 GiB

499% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

324th of 1,089

263rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

2014 August

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 E5-2697 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-7940X is faster than the Xeon E5-2697 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697 v3 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-7940X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697 v3. Also, the Core i9-7940X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2697 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.