Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2 vs Intel Core i7-4930K. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Family
  Intel Xeon E5 Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E5 v2 Intel Core i 4000X
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Generation
  4 4

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Frequency
  3.00 GHz 3.40 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.90 GHz 3.90 GHz
• Hyperthreading
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No Yes

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  no iGPU no iGPU
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• JPEG
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i7-4930K and Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1066DDR3-1333DDR3-1600DDR3-1866 DDR3-1866
• Max. Memory
  256 GB
• Memory channels
  4 4
• ECC
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2 and Intel Core i7-4930K to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  130 W 130 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2 and Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX
• L3-Cache
  25.00 MB 12.00 MB
• Architecture
  Ivy Bridge EP Ivy Bridge E
• Technology
  22 nm 22 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• Socket
  LGA 2011 LGA 2011
• Release date
  Q3/2013 Q3/2013