Intel Core i7-6850K vs Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3

Core i7-6850K vs Xeon E5-2666 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6850K. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-6850K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6850K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6850K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2666 v3. In terms of cache, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-6850K. The Xeon E5-2666 v3 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.