Intel Xeon D-1543N vs Intel Core i7-6950X. Specifications

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  Intel Xeon D-1500 Intel Core i 6000X
• Family
  Intel Xeon D Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition
• Generation
  1 6
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  1.9 GHz 3 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Core Configuration
  8x -
• CPU Cores
  8 10
• CPU Threads
  16 20
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  2.5 GHz 3.5 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  1.9 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (10 Cores)
  - 3.5 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  no iGPU no iGPU
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i7-6950X and Intel Xeon D-1543N. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  128 GB -
• Memory Bandwidth
  38.4 GB/s -
• Memory channels
  2 4
• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR4-2400
• PCIe
  3.0 x 32 -
• PCIe lanes
  - 40
• PCIe version
  - 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon D-1543N and Intel Core i7-6950X Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  45 W 140 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon D-1543N and Intel Core i7-6950X, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Broadwell Broadwell E
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  12.00 MB -
• L3-Cache
  - 25.00 MB
• Operating systems
  Windows 10, Linux -
• Release date
  Q3/2017 Q2/2016
• Socket
  BGA 1667 LGA 2011-3
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d