Intel Xeon E3-1245 v5 vs Intel Core i7 X 990

Xeon E3-1245 v5 vs Core i7 X 990 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7 X 990 is faster than the Xeon E3-1245 v5. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1245 v5 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7 X 990 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Xeon E3-1245 v5 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1245 v5. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1245 v5 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7 X 990. In terms of cache, the Core i7 X 990 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E3-1245 v5

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1245 v5 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.