Comparison of Intel Core i7-4960X and Intel Xeon E5-2687W v2

Attribute	Intel Xeon E5-2687W v2 ×	Intel Core i7-4960X ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	Intel
Series	Intel Xeon E5	Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition
Model	Intel Xeon E5-2687W v2	Intel Core i7-4960X
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	8	6
Frequency (GHz)	3.4	3.6
CPU Threads	16	12
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	-	+
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	4	4
Turbo (6 Cores) (GHz)	-	4
Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz)	3.6	-
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	DDR3-1866	DDR3-1866
PCIe lanes	40	40
PCIe version	3.0	3.0
ECC	+	-
Memory channels	4	4
Technical details
Release date (year)	2013	2013
Technology (Nm)	22	22
Socket	LGA 2011	LGA 2011
Virtualization	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	25	15
Architecture	Ivy Bridge EP	Ivy Bridge E
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	150	130
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	16,343	14,313
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	744	846
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	6,415	5,189
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	154	151
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	1,132	1,092
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.79	1.82
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	12.21	11.71
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	3,486	3,460
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	21,988	20,120
Blender 2.81 (bmw27)	297.1	-