Intel Xeon E5-2643 vs Intel Core i7 X 980

Xeon E5-2643 vs Core i7 X 980 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2643 beats the Core i7 X 980 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 X 980 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7 X 980 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2643 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2643. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7 X 980 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2643.

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 E5-2643 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.