Intel Core i7-6950X vs Intel Xeon E5-1650 v4

Core i7-6950X vs Xeon E5-1650 v4 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-6950X performs better than the Xeon E5-1650 v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1650 v4 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-6950X has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-1650 v4. Indeed, the Core i7-6950X has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon E5-1650 v4. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-1650 v4. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1650 v4 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6950X. Also, the Xeon E5-1650 v4 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i7-6950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.