Intel Core i7-6820HQ vs Intel Xeon E5-1620

Core i7-6820HQ vs Xeon E5-1620 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1620 beats the Core i7-6820HQ in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6820HQ in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-1620 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6820HQ. Also, the Xeon E5-1620 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-6820HQ CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 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.