Intel Xeon E5-2640 vs Intel Core i7-2600K

Xeon E5-2640 vs Core i7-2600K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2640 beats the Core i7-2600K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-2600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2640 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-2600K. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-2600K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-2600K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-2600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640. Also, the Core i7-2600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 E5-2640 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.