Intel Core i7-6920HQ vs Intel Xeon E5-1620 v4

Core i7-6920HQ vs Xeon E5-1620 v4 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1620 v4 beats the Core i7-6920HQ in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6920HQ in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-1620 v4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6920HQ. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Core i7-6920HQ CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 v4 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.