Intel Xeon E5-2660 vs Intel Core i7 X 990

Xeon E5-2660 vs Core i7 X 990 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2660 is faster than the Core i7 X 990. Despite this, the Core i7 X 990 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2660 has slightly more cores than the Core i7 X 990. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2660 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7 X 990. It also has more threads than the Core i7 X 990. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7 X 990 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2660.

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