Intel Core i7-6920HQ vs Intel Xeon X5670

Core i7-6920HQ vs Xeon X5670 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6920HQ is faster than the Xeon X5670. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5670 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon X5670 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6920HQ. Indeed, the Xeon X5670 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-6920HQ. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6920HQ. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon X5670 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 X5670 CPU because of its significantly 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 i7-6920HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.