Intel Core i7-6950X vs Intel Xeon E5-2696 v2

Core i7-6950X vs Xeon E5-2696 v2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-6950X beats the Xeon E5-2696 v2 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2696 v2 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2696 v2 has slightly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i7-6950X that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6950X.

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.