Intel Core i7-6700HQ vs Intel Xeon E3-1270 V2

Core i7-6700HQ vs Xeon E3-1270 V2 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1270 V2 is faster than the Core i7-6700HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700HQ in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E3-1270 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.