Intel Core i7-6700K vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

Core i7-6700K vs Xeon E5-2696 v2 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2696 v2 performs better than the Core i7-6700K. Despite this, the Core i7-6700K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i7-6700K that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700K.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-6700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.