Intel Xeon E5-1660 vs Intel Core i7-9750HF

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i7 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3673 points

3873 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4854 points

4925 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3294 points

3532 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3198 points

3431 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

65.07 points

81.47 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3040 points

4839 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

618 points

1360 points

120% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

27% slightly higher clock speed

2.59 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

4.5 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

45 W

188% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

150% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

256 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

128 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

465th of 1,089

445th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

9th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-1660 vs Core i7-9750HF specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-9750HF performs better than the Xeon E5-1660. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1660 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1660 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-9750HF. Despite this, the Core i7-9750HF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-9750HF outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1660 thanks to a significantly 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 Xeon E5-1660 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.