Intel Core i7-6950X vs Intel Xeon E5-2689

Core i7-6950X vs Xeon E5-2689 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6950X is faster than the Xeon E5-2689. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2689 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-6950X has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2689. Indeed, the Core i7-6950X has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Xeon E5-2689. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2689. The Xeon E5-2689 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-6950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.