Intel Core i7-6600U vs Intel Xeon E5-2609 v3

Core i7-6600U vs Xeon E5-2609 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2609 v3 beats the Core i7-6600U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6600U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2609 v3 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-6600U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6600U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6600U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2609 v3. A Core i7-6600U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2609 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-6600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.