Intel Core i7-6820HK vs Intel Xeon E5-2640

Core i7-6820HK vs Xeon E5-2640 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2640 beats the Core i7-6820HK in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-6820HK has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2640 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-6820HK that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6820HK. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6820HK has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2640. Also, the Core i7-6820HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-6820HK CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2640 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 i7-6820HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.