Intel Xeon E5-2650 v4 vs Intel Core i7-13700K

Xeon E5-2650 v4 vs Core i7-13700K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-13700K beats the Xeon E5-2650 v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2650 v4 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-13700K has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2650 v4 that has 12 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-13700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2650 v4. Also, the Core i7-13700K has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2650 v4 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-13700K CPU because of its slightly 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 Xeon E5-2650 v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.