Intel Core i7-6700HQ vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

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

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

CPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare processors

Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 3231.00

$ 189.95

$ 3041.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2465 points

2544 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3937 points

4070 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2027 points

2091 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1949 points

2009 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

Free CPU Benchmark

Want to compare your processor against the Core i7-6700HQ and the Xeon E3-1230 V2? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download CPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

56.39 points

41% slightly higher Blender score

39.80 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

3.30 GHz

26% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

635th of 1,089

618th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-6700HQ vs Xeon E3-1230 V2 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E3-1230 V2 performs better than the Core i7-6700HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700HQ in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6700HQ.

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 i7-6700HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.