Intel Core i7-11700KF vs Intel Xeon Gold 6128

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon Scalable 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 299.00
$ 210.69
$ 88.31 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7085 points
3% slightly better overall score
6872 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9129 points
38% slightly better gaming score
6615 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6412 points
7015 points
9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6235 points
7122 points
14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

197.54 points
66% significantly higher Blender score
118.73 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9526 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
6014 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2119 points
77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1194 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10286 points
69% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
6063 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2275 points
93% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1178 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed
3.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
35% slightly higher turbo speed
3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W
115 W
8% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20
48
139% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
6
200% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
768 GiB
499% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

185th of 1,089
202nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i7
Xeon Scalable

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February
2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i7-11700KF vs Xeon Gold 6128 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-11700KF is faster than the Xeon Gold 6128. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Gold 6128 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-11700KF has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon Gold 6128 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon Gold 6128. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-11700KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon Gold 6128. Also, the Core i7-11700KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon Gold 6128 outputs less heat than Core i7-11700KF thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-11700KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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