Intel Xeon W3580 vs Intel Core i7-860

Xeon W3580 vs Core i7-860 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon W3580 beats the Core i7-860 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-860 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon W3580 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-860. Also, the Xeon W3580 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-860 outputs less heat than Xeon W3580 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon W3580 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.