Intel Core i7-6820HQ vs Intel Xeon E5-2637 v3

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2371 points

4611 points

94% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3749 points

5571 points

48% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1956 points

4299 points

119% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1875 points

4207 points

124% significantly better heavy workload score

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Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3456 points

4013 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1085 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

871 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3487 points

4512 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1123 points

1142 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.7 GHz

3.5 GHz

29% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

200% significantly lower TDP

135 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

768 GiB

1100% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

647th of 1,089

379th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-6820HQ vs Xeon E5-2637 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2637 v3 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.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-2637 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6820HQ. Also, the Xeon E5-2637 v3 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-6820HQ CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2637 v3 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 i7-6820HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.