Intel Xeon W3680 vs Intel Core i7 X 990

Xeon W3680 vs Core i7 X 990 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7 X 990 is faster than the Xeon W3680. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon W3680 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7 X 990 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon W3680. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache

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 W3680 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.