Product Compare

Intel Xeon 698X vs Intel Core i7 6950X

	CPU Intel Xeon 698X	CPU Intel Core i7 6950X
General Parameters
Release Date	Feb 2026	May 2016
Manufacturer	Intel	Intel
Type	Server	Desktop
Core Architecture	Granite Rapids	Broadwell E
Integrated Graphics	N/A	N/A
Generation	Xeon 600 (Granite Rapids-WS)
Series	Intel Xeon 6 processors
Instruction Set		x86-64
Processor Number		i7-6950X
Package
Manufacturing Process	5 nm	14 nm
Socket	Intel Socket 4710	LGA-2011-3
Power Consumption	350 W	140 W
Peak Operating Temperature	95°C
Foundry	Intel
Die Size	2x598 mm²
I/O Process Size	10 nm
I/O Die Size	2x 241
Package	FC-LGA18N
CPU Performance
Performance Cores	86	10
Performance Core Threads	172	20
Performance Core Base Frequency	2 GHz	3.0 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency	4.8 GHz	3.5 GHz
Total Core Count	86	10
Total Thread Count	172	20
Bus Frequency	100 MHz	100 MHz
Multiplier	20.0	30x
L1 Cache	112 KB per core	32 K per core
L2 Cache	2 MB per core	256 K per core
L3 Cache	336 MB shared	25 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier	Yes	No
SMP	1
Memory Parameters
Memory Types	DDR5-6400	DDR4-2133
Max Memory Size	4 TB	128 GB
Max Memory Channels	8	4
Max Memory Bandwidth	409.6 GB/s	76.8 GB/s
ECC Memory Support	Yes	No
Miscellaneous
Official Website	Official Link ↗	Official Link ↗
PCIe Version	5	3.0
PCIe Lanes	128	40
Benchmarks
Geekbench 6 Single Core	2944	1020
Geekbench 6 Multi Core	34632	6726