Intel Xeon W-2123 vs Intel Core i7 X 990

Xeon W-2123 vs Core i7 X 990 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon W-2123 beats the Core i7 X 990 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 X 990 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7 X 990 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Xeon W-2123 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon W-2123. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon W-2123 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7 X 990.

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 W-2123 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.