Comparison of Intel Core i7-5960X and Intel Xeon Silver 4114

Attribute	Intel Core i7-5960X ×	Intel Xeon Silver 4114 ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	Intel
Series	Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition	Intel Xeon Silver
Model	Intel Core i7-5960X	Intel Xeon Silver 4114
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	8	10
Frequency (GHz)	3	2.2
CPU Threads	16	20
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	+	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	3.5	3
Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz)	3.2	-
Turbo (10 Cores) (GHz)	-	2.6
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	No	No
h264	No	No
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	No
VP8	No	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	No	No
VP9	No	No
AVC	No	No
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	DDR4-2133	DDR4-2400
PCIe lanes	40	48
PCIe version	3.0	3.0
ECC	-	+
Memory channels	4	6
Technical details
Release date (year)	2014	2017
Technology (Nm)	22	14
Socket	LGA 2011-3	LGA 3647
Virtualization	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept	vpro vt-d vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	20	14
Architecture	Haswell-E	Skylake SP
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	140	85
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	15,991	14,280
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1,002	684
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	7,843	5,890
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	177	131
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	1,360	1,439
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.89	1.54
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	13.18	15.82
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	3,773	3,358
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	28,928	27,036
Blender 2.81 (bmw27)	254.1	-