What's the difference between a Xeon processor and a regular processor? Of course Xeon processors are meant for server use. But that's just the intention, it doesn't tell anything about the actual differences inside.
I have read this question from 14 years ago: How do Xeon processors differ from regular processors? It says that Xeon processors operate on different motherboards. Probably because you can have more than one in a single housing, according to that post. Also they support ECC RAM and might have some other extra features. But the cores themselves are much the same. As far as I'm aware that's the case for many different processor models/variants from the same generation.
Also Xeon processors allegedly support more cores, more cache, more RAM, more PCIe lanes and more instruction set extensions.
But if you actually look into the data sheet of a Ryzen 9 7950X, it has a lot of cores, cache and supported RAM, too. It has the same instruction set extensions, higher clock speed but not as many PCIe lanes. However, it costs 700€ and not 2000-5000€.
So how does this price come about if the actual differences are that small?
