Intel Core i7-7820HQ vs Intel Xeon E-2186M

Core i7-7820HQ vs Xeon E-2186M specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E-2186M is faster than the Core i7-7820HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7820HQ in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E-2186M has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-7820HQ that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7820HQ. Both the Core i7-7820HQ and Xeon E-2186M have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Xeon E-2186M has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i7-7820HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.