Intel Core i7-6700T vs Intel Xeon E5-2620

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

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 199.99
$ 7.16 slightly less expensive
$ 207.15

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2714 points
0.74% slightly better overall score
2694 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4539 points
41% slightly better gaming score
3212 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2180 points
2534 points
16% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2087 points
2503 points
19% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

56.88 points
46% significantly higher Blender score
38.93 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3628 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2793 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1154 points
151% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
459 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3579 points
88% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1902 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1206 points
209% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
390 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz
40% slightly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
44% significantly higher turbo speed
2.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
171% significantly lower TDP
95 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
40
150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB
384 GiB
499% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

584th of 1,089
591st of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7
Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i7-6700T vs Xeon E5-2620 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2620 is faster than the Core i7-6700T. Despite this, the Core i7-6700T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2620 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6700T. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2620 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-6700T. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-6700T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2620. Also, the Core i7-6700T has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-6700T CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2620 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 i7-6700T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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