Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 vs Intel Core i7 X 990

Xeon E5-2660 v2 vs Core i7 X 990 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2660 v2 performs better than the Core i7 X 990. Despite this, the Core i7 X 990 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2660 v2 has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i7 X 990 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7 X 990. Our comparison shows that the Core i7 X 990 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2660 v2.

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 E5-2660 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.