Intel Core i7-6700K vs Intel Xeon E5-2620 v3

Core i7-6700K vs Xeon E5-2620 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6700K is faster than the Xeon E5-2620 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2620 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2620 v3 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-6700K that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2620 v3. Also, the Core i7-6700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2620 v3 outputs less heat than Core i7-6700K thanks to a slightly 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 i7-6700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.