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Intel Xeon CPU Max 9480 vs Intel Core i7-10700

Last updated: 2026-07-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

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Intel Xeon CPU Max 9480

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Intel Core i7-10700

Multi-core performance

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Intel Xeon CPU Max 9480

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Intel Core i7-10700

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Monero Hashrate
94 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Xeon CPU Max 9480	Intel Core i7-10700
Family	Intel Xeon CPU Max (5)	Intel Core i7 (300)
CPU group	Intel Xeon CPU Max 9000 (5)	Intel Core i 10000 (43)
Architecture	Sapphire Rapids	Comet Lake S
Technology	10 nm	14 nm
Segment	Desktop	Desktop
Socket	LGA 4677	LGA 1200
Predecessor		Intel Core i7-9700
Successor		Intel Core i7-11700

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Xeon CPU Max 9480	Intel Core i7-10700
CPU Cores / Threads	56 / 112	8 / 16
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✓
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	56x	8x
Frequency:	1.90 GHz	2.90 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	3.50 GHz	4.80 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):		4.60 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	112.50 MB	16.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Xeon CPU Max 9480	Intel Core i7-10700
GPU name	no iGPU	Intel UHD Graphics 630
GPU frequency		0.35 - 1.20 GHz
CUs / Shader	/	24 / 192
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays		3
Max. GPU Memory		64 GB
Technology		14 nm
Release date		Q4/2017

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Xeon CPU Max 9480	Intel Core i7-10700
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Xeon CPU Max 9480	Intel Core i7-10700
Memory	DDR5-4800 (307.2 GB/s) DDR5-4400 (281.6 GB/s)	DDR4-2933 (46.9 GB/s)
Max. Memory	4096 GB	128 GB
Memory channels	8	2
ECC	Yes	No
PCIe	5.0 x 80	3.0 x 16
PCIe Bandwidth	315.0 GB/s	15.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Xeon CPU Max 9480	Intel Core i7-10700
TDP	350 W	65 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Xeon CPU Max 9480	Intel Core i7-10700
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows, Linux	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
Release date	Q1/2023	Q2/2020
Release price	12980 $	323 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Xeon CPU Max 9480 is 4.6 stars (8 ratings), while Intel Core i7-10700 has received 4.2 stars (63 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Xeon CPU Max 9480
56C / 112T · 1.90 - 3.50 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i7-10700
8C / 16T · 2.90 - 4.80 GHz

★★★★★