Intel Core i7-6850K vs Intel Xeon E5-2667 v4

Core i7-6850K vs Xeon E5-2667 v4 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2667 v4 beats the Core i7-6850K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6850K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2667 v4 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-6850K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6850K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6850K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2667 v4. Also, the Core i7-6850K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2667 v4 outputs less heat than Core i7-6850K thanks to a slightly 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 i7-6850K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.