Intel Core i7-6950X vs Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4

Core i7-6950X vs Xeon E5-2697A v4 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 beats the Core i7-6950X in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-6950X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i7-6950X has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6950X. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6950X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-6950X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2697A v4 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6950X. The Xeon E5-2697A v4 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.