Intel Core i7-6700T vs Intel Xeon W-2125

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

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Intel Xeon W-2125

Price

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$ 199.99

$ 229.96 significantly less expensive

$ 429.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2714 points

3067 points

13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4539 points

5663 points

24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2180 points

2337 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2087 points

2241 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

56.88 points

72.99 points

28% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3628 points

4853 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1154 points

1323 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3579 points

4933 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1206 points

1360 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz

4 GHz

42% much higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.5 GHz

25% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

242% significantly lower TDP

120 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

200% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

512 GiB

700% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

584th of 1,089

532nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7

Xeon W

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-6700T vs Xeon W-2125 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon W-2125 is faster than the Core i7-6700T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700T in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon W-2125 has a much higher clock speed than the Core i7-6700T. Also, the Xeon W-2125 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-6700T CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W-2125 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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