Intel Core i7-6820HK vs Intel Xeon E5-2690

Core i7-6820HK vs Xeon E5-2690 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2690 is faster than the Core i7-6820HK. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6820HK in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2690 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-6820HK has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6820HK. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2690 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6820HK. Also, the Xeon E5-2690 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-6820HK CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2690 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 i7-6820HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.