Intel Core i7-5960X vs Intel Xeon E-2146G

Core i7-5960X vs Xeon E-2146G specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-5960X is faster than the Xeon E-2146G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E-2146G in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-5960X has slightly more cores than the Xeon E-2146G. Indeed, the Core i7-5960X has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon E-2146G. It also has more threads than the Xeon E-2146G. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E-2146G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-5960X. Also, the Xeon E-2146G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E-2146G outputs less heat than Core i7-5960X thanks to a significantly 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 i7-5960X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.