Intel Core i9-7980XE vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4

Core i9-7980XE vs Xeon E5-2680 v4 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2680 v4 is faster than the Core i9-7980XE. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-7980XE in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-7980XE has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2680 v4. Indeed, the Core i9-7980XE has 18 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Xeon E5-2680 v4. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2680 v4. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-7980XE has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v4. Also, the Core i9-7980XE has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2680 v4 outputs less heat than Core i9-7980XE thanks to a slightly 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 i9-7980XE has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.