Intel Core i7-6700 vs Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 18 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3

Price

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$ 122.39

$ 407.56 significantly less expensive

$ 529.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3117 points

6700 points

114% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4991 points

5199 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2559 points

7270 points

184% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2457 points

7597 points

209% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

69.31 points

219.38 points

216% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

350% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

350% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

47% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

123% significantly lower TDP

145 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

768 GiB

1100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

523rd of 1,089

210th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-6700 vs Xeon E5-2699 v3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2699 v3 is faster than the Core i7-6700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2699 v3 has significantly more cores with 18 cores whereas the Core i7-6700 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6700 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2699 v3. Also, the Core i7-6700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-6700 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2699 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-6700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.