Intel Core i7-6850K vs Intel Xeon E5-2678 v3

Core i7-6850K vs Xeon E5-2678 v3 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2678 v3 performs better than the Core i7-6850K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6850K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2678 v3 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i7-6850K that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6850K. The Xeon E5-2678 v3 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.

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.