Intel Core i9-7940X vs Intel Xeon Silver 4110

Core i9-7940X vs Xeon Silver 4110 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-7940X beats the Xeon Silver 4110 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Silver 4110 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-7940X has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Xeon Silver 4110 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon Silver 4110. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-7940X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon Silver 4110. Also, the Core i9-7940X has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Xeon Silver 4110 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.