Intel Core i7-6850K vs Intel Xeon E-2186M

Compare Intel Core X-series 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E 6 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

4066 points

4251 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5576 points

5667 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3611 points

3818 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3510 points

3707 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

103.26 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

90.89 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5746 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5235 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1278 points

1426 points

11% 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

3.6 GHz

24% slightly higher clock speed

2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

4.8 GHz

26% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

45 W

211% significantly lower TDP

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

128 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

64 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

446th of 1,118

432nd of 1,118

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Xeon E

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-6850K vs Xeon E-2186M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E-2186M is faster than the Core i7-6850K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6850K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-6850K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E-2186M. Despite this, the Xeon E-2186M has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E-2186M outputs less heat than Core i7-6850K thanks to a 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 i7-6850K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.