Intel Core i7-6820HK vs Intel Xeon X5680

Core i7-6820HK vs Xeon X5680 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon X5680 beats the Core i7-6820HK in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-6820HK has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon X5680 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-6820HK has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6820HK. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon X5680 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6820HK. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Core i7-6820HK CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5680 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-6820HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.