Comparison of Intel Core i7-3960X and Intel Xeon E5-2640 v2

Attribute	Intel Core i7-3960X ×	Intel Xeon E5-2640 v2 ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	Intel
Series	Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition	Intel Xeon E5
Model	Intel Core i7-3960X	Intel Xeon E5-2640 v2
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	6	8
Frequency (GHz)	3.3	2
CPU Threads	12	16
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	+	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	3.9	2.5
Turbo (6 Cores) (GHz)	3.9	-
Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz)	-	2.2
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	DDR3-1600	DDR3-1600
PCIe lanes	-	40
PCIe version	-	3.0
ECC	-	+
Memory channels	4	4
Technical details
Release date (year)	2011	2013
Technology (Nm)	32	22
Socket	LGA 2011	LGA 2011
Virtualization	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	15	20
Architecture	Sandy Bridge E	Ivy Bridge EP
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	130	95
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	12,712	10,213
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	836	456
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	4,973	4,106
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	159	94
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	1,158	710
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.57	1.08
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	11.35	8.63
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	3,314	2,170
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	19,300	15,970