Intel Core i7-6850K vs Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3

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Price

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$ 85.00
$ 114.26 significantly less expensive
$ 199.26

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4066 points
4392 points
8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5576 points
3% slightly better gaming score
5377 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3611 points
4064 points
12% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3510 points
3979 points
13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

103.26 points
148.95 points
44% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5539 points
8091 points
46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1210 points
1373 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5746 points
7100 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1278 points
1291 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
20% slightly higher clock speed
3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed
3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W
Identical
140 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40
Identical
40

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
Identical
4

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
768 GiB
499% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

438th of 1,107
411th of 1,107

Family

The product line

Core X-series
Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May
2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR4-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

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