Intel Core i7-6820HQ vs Intel Xeon E3-1230

Core i7-6820HQ vs Xeon E3-1230 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1230 beats the Core i7-6820HQ in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-6820HQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 E3-1230 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6820HQ. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Core i7-6820HQ CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1230 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 i7-6820HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.