Intel Core i7-6950X vs Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3

Compare Intel Core X-series 10 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3

Price

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$ 758.40

$ 189.95

$ 568.45 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5504 points

37% slightly better overall score

3996 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6279 points

49% significantly better gaming score

4213 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5261 points

34% slightly better multitasking score

3900 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5214 points

35% slightly better heavy workload score

3849 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

185.36 points

43% significantly higher Blender score

129.03 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7553 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

5920 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1192 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

975 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8892 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5959 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1370 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

985 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

105 W

33% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

293rd of 1,089

436th of 1,089

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

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-6950X vs Xeon E5-2660 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-6950X beats the Xeon E5-2660 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2660 v3 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6950X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2660 v3. Also, the Core i7-6950X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2660 v3 outputs less heat than Core i7-6950X thanks to a slightly 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 i7-6950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.