Intel Xeon W-2223 vs Intel Core i7 X 990

Xeon W-2223 vs Core i7 X 990 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7 X 990 performs better than the Xeon W-2223. Despite this, the Xeon W-2223 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7 X 990 has significantly more cores than the Xeon W-2223. Indeed, the Core i7 X 990 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon W-2223. It also has more threads than the Xeon W-2223. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon W-2223 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7 X 990.

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 W-2223 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.