Intel Core i7-6950X vs Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3

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Price

The average price from our partner retailers

$ 758.40
$ 199.26
$ 559.14 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5504 points
25% slightly better overall score
4392 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6279 points
16% slightly better gaming score
5377 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5261 points
29% slightly better multitasking score
4064 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5214 points
31% slightly better heavy workload score
3979 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

185.36 points
24% slightly higher Blender score
148.95 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7553 points
8091 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1192 points
1373 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8892 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
7100 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1370 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1291 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
25% slightly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
25% slightly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
Identical
3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
Identical
3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W
Identical
140 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

40
Identical
40

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
Identical
4

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
768 GiB
499% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

312th of 1,127
424th of 1,127

Family

The product line

Core X-series
Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May
2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR4-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

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