Intel Core i7-6920HQ vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel 4 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

1713 points

2544 points

48% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2720 points

4070 points

49% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1419 points

2091 points

47% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1360 points

2009 points

47% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

56.11 points

40% slightly higher Blender score

39.80 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz

3.30 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

772nd of 1,089

618th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-6920HQ vs Xeon E3-1230 V2 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1230 V2 is faster than the Core i7-6920HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6920HQ in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6920HQ.

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 i7-6920HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.