Intel Core i9-9900K vs Intel Xeon E5-2697 v3

Core i9-9900K vs Xeon E5-2697 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9900K beats the Xeon E5-2697 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2697 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697 v3 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i9-9900K has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-9900K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2697 v3. Also, the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-9900K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697 v3 CPU because of its significantly 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 i9-9900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.