Comparison of Intel Core i9-7940X and Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2

Attribute	Intel Core i9-7940X ×	Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2 ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	Intel
Series	Intel Core i9	Intel Xeon E5
Model	Intel Core i9-7940X	Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	14	10
Frequency (GHz)	3.1	2.2
CPU Threads	28	20
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	+	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	4.3	3
Turbo (10 Cores) (GHz)	-	2.6
Turbo (14 Cores) (GHz)	3.7	-
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
PCIe lanes	44	40
PCIe version	3.0	3.0
ECC	-	+
Memory channels	4	4
Technical details
Release date (year)	2017	2013
Technology (Nm)	14	22
Socket	LGA 2066	LGA 2011
Virtualization	vt-d vt-x	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	19	20
Architecture	Skylake-X	Ivy Bridge EP
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	165	95
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	25,430	13,142
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1,158	578
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	12,964	5,441
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	188	113
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	2,849	916
Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)	-	2,389
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	2.19	0.93
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	31.21	11.26
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	4,876	2,275
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	53,446	28,770
Blender 2.81 (bmw27)	121.7	336.4