Comparison of Intel Core i9-7940X and Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4

Attribute	Intel Core i9-7940X ×	Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	Intel
Series	Intel Core i9	Intel Xeon E5
Model	Intel Core i9-7940X	Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	14	14
Frequency (GHz)	3.1	2.6
CPU Threads	28	28
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	+	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	4.3	3.5
Turbo (14 Cores) (GHz)	3.7	3
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	DDR4-2400
PCIe lanes	44	40
PCIe version	3.0	3.0
ECC	-	+
Memory channels	4	4
Technical details
Release date (year)	2017	2016
Technology (Nm)	14	14
Socket	LGA 2066	LGA 2011-3
Virtualization	vt-d vt-x	vpro vt-d vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	19	35
Architecture	Skylake-X	Broadwell EP
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	165	135
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	25,430	21,165
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1,158	793
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	12,964	10,719
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	188	146
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	2,849	2,223
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	2.19	1.78
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	31.21	27.38
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	4,876	4,124
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	53,446	55,735
Blender 2.81 (bmw27)	121.7	-