Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs Intel Core i7-14700K

Compare Intel 10 core CPU vs Intel Core i7 (14th gen) 20 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4823 points

16063 points

233% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5321 points

16190 points

204% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4658 points

16059 points

244% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4614 points

16174 points

250% significantly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4806 points

14813 points

208% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

152.03 points

445.12 points

192% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

40% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.90 GHz

3.4 GHz

17% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB

28 MiB

1019% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB

33 MiB

32% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

363rd of 1,089

17th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core i7 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2666 v3 vs Core i7-14700K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-14700K is faster than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2666 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-14700K has significantly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-14700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2666 v3. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-14700K has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. The Core i7-14700K also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 E5-2666 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.