Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3 vs Intel Core i7 X 990

Xeon E5-2620 v3 vs Core i7 X 990 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2620 v3 is faster than the Core i7 X 990. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 X 990 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7 X 990 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2620 v3.

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 Xeon E5-2620 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.