Yes, XMR is probably the only profitable coin to mine via CPU.
The most important CPU characteristic appears to be # of threads and total MB of cache, because mining Monero requires 2MB per thread.
My old personal system running an i7-2600k (8 threads but only 4 usable due to cache requirements) gets about 145 H/s on XMR,
My new mining rig with an i7-6800k (12 threads but only 7 usable due to 15MB of cache) has been getting about 250-260 H/s on XMR since I launched it over the weekend.
Note that these results were via MinerGate, so using a better miner should yield an increase, at least to some degree.
go for xmr it is still profitable!!! if you can afford a xeon better !!!