Intel Core i7-6920HQ vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 v3

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 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

2545 points

48% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2720 points

3940 points

44% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1419 points

2128 points

49% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1360 points

2046 points

50% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

56.11 points

61.88 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3551 points

3681 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1105 points

1126 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3793 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

3699 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1184 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1160 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

3.3 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

77% significantly lower TDP

80 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

64 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

772nd of 1,089

617th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-6920HQ vs Xeon E3-1230 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1230 v3 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 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6920HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-6920HQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-6920HQ CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1230 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-6920HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.