Intel Xeon E5-2667 v4 vs Intel Core i7-6700HQ. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E5 v4 Intel Core i 6000H
• Family
  Intel Xeon E5 Intel Core i7
• Generation
  6 6
• Predecessor
  Intel Xeon E5-2667 v3 -
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile

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

• Base Frequency
  3.2 GHz 2.6 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  8 4
• CPU Threads
  16 8
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.6 GHz 3.5 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  3.4 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  - 3.2 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.

• DirectX Version
  - 12
• Execution units
  - 24
• Generation
  - 9
• GPU Frequency
  - 350 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU Intel HD Graphics 530
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 1050 MHz
• Max. displays
  - 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 64 GB
• Release date
  - Q3/2015
• Shader
  - 192
• Technology
  - 14 nm

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i7-6700HQ and Intel Xeon E5-2667 v4. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  4 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR4-2133 SO-DIMM
• PCIe lanes
  40 20
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon E5-2667 v4 and Intel Core i7-6700HQ 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)
  135 W 45 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon E5-2667 v4 and Intel Core i7-6700HQ, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Broadwell E Skylake H
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  25 MB 6 MB
• Release date
  Q1/2016 Q3/2015
• Socket
  LGA 2011-3 BGA 1440
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d