Compare CPU of 7700 K V.S. E5-1650 V2

[rchen68]

hi There!

So with the price drop (no upgarde) I'm deciding if I should buy the trash can. I'm a traveler so I consider only laptop PC and trashcan, desktop PC or Mac tower is too big for me to travel with.I'm a heavily CPU user , GPU is not much my care. I can get a 7700K CPU laptop PC at around $2500 , or a $2999 nMP with E5-1650 v2, the score at PassMark benchmark is very very close. But isn't the 7700 K the newest while E5-1650 V2 very very old (goes back to 2013...)Which one is more powerful for heavy CPU usage?

[idata]

Hello rockman413,

Thank you for contacting the Intel community. You can check the difference between these two processors here:https://ark.intel.com/compare/75780,97129 https://ark.intel.com/compare/75780,97129 Please bear in mind that if you are planning to buy a laptop the Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-1650 v2 is mostly for server systems. At the link I'm posting here you can see the difference with the cores, the size 22nm & 14nm and you can see the number of threads, also you will see the difference in GHz. I hope this can help. Regards, Ivan.

[rchen68]

Thank you. actually I'm deciding between a 7700K laptop or a Xeon 1650 V2 Mac Pro, which is more expensive.

So regarding computing power, which one is more powerful? I'm seeing cpu benchmark that 1650 V2 has a significant higher score but isn't old and 7700K is very new?

[TGrab1]

The reason behind this is fairly simple.

The e5 is a 6 core 12 thread processor.

The 7700k is a 4 core 8 thread processor

The 7700k has much higher single thread performance

The e5 has lower single thread performance but more multi threaded performance due to 50% more cores.

So while yes the 7700k is actually faster per core. It also has 2 less cores than the e5, which will give the e5 more total processing power.

[idata]

This depends on what you need the system for, the Intel Xeon E5-1650 v2 has more CPU cores to help processing multiple tasks or heavily multi-threaded applications, it can support up to 256 GB of ram and the Intel® Core™ i7-7700K Processor supports up to 64 GB of ram.

The Intel® Core™ i7-7700K Processor is unlocked clock multiplier. To get more performance from the processor, it can be easily overclocked even though is not recommended by Intel. Regards, Ivan.