Comparison of Intel Core i9-9800X and Intel Xeon E7-8870 v2

Attribute	Intel Core i9-9800X ×	Intel Xeon E7-8870 v2 ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	Intel
Series	Intel Core i9	Intel Xeon E7
Model	Intel Core i9-9800X	Intel Xeon E7-8870 v2
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	8	15
Frequency (GHz)	3.8	2.3
CPU Threads	16	30
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	+	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	4.5	2.9
Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz)	4.2	-
Turbo (15 Cores) (GHz)	-	2.9
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	DDR4-2666	DDR3-1600
Max. Memory (GB)	128	-
PCIe lanes	44	-
PCIe version	3.0	-
ECC	-	+
Memory channels	4	4
Technical details
Release date (year)	2018	2014
Technology (Nm)	14	22
Socket	LGA 2066	LGA 2011
Virtualization	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	17	30
Architecture	Skylake	Ivy Bridge EX
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
Temp junction max (°C)	95	-
TDP (PL1) (W)	165	130
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	19,787	10,207
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	196	-
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	1,850	-
Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)	455	151
Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)	4,338	1,765