Intel Core i7-6950X vs Intel Xeon E5-2676 v3

Core i7-6950X vs Xeon E5-2676 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6950X is faster than the Xeon E5-2676 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2676 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2676 v3 has slightly more cores than the Core i7-6950X. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2676 v3 has 12 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core i7-6950X. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6950X. The Xeon E5-2676 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.