Intel Core i7-6950X vs Intel Xeon E5-2470 v2

Core i7-6950X vs Xeon E5-2470 v2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2470 v2 beats the Core i7-6950X in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-6950X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-6950X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2470 v2. Also, the Core i7-6950X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2470 v2 outputs less heat than Core i7-6950X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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.