| Attribute |
Intel Core i7-8086K × | 
Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 × |
| General Information | | |
| Brand | Intel | Intel |
| Series | Intel Core i7 | Intel Xeon E3 |
| Model | Intel Core i7-8086K | Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 |
| CPU Cores and Base Frequency | | |
| CPU Cores | 6 | 4 |
| Frequency (GHz) | 3.7 | 3.4 |
| CPU Threads | 12 | 8 |
| Core architecture | normal | normal |
| Hyperthreading | + | + |
| Overclocking | + | - |
| Turbo (1 Core) (GHz) | 5 | 3.8 |
| Turbo (4 Cores) (GHz) | - | 3.6 |
| Turbo (6 Cores) (GHz) | 4.3 | - |
| Encryption | | |
| AES-NI | + | + |
| Hardware codec support | | |
| JPEG | Decode / Encode | No |
| h264 | Decode / Encode | No |
| h265 / HEVC (8 bit) | Decode / Encode | No |
| h265 / HEVC (10 bit) | Decode / Encode | No |
| VP8 | Decode / Encode | No |
| AV1 | No | No |
| VC-1 | Decode | No |
| VP9 | Decode / Encode | No |
| AVC | Decode / Encode | No |
| Internal Graphics | | |
| GPU name | Intel UHD Graphics 630 | - |
| GPU frequency (GHz) | 0.35 | - |
| GPU (Turbo) (GHz) | 1.2 | - |
| Generation | 9 | - |
| DirectX Version | 12 | - |
| Execution units | 24 | - |
| Shader | 192 | - |
| Max. GPU Memory (GB) | 64 | - |
| Max. displays | 3 | - |
| GPU Release date (year) | 2017 | - |
| Memory And PCIe | | |
| Memory type | DDR4-2666 | DDR4-2133 |
| PCIe lanes | 16 | 16 |
| PCIe version | 3.0 | 3.0 |
| ECC | - | + |
| Memory channels | 2 | 2 |
| Technical details | | |
| Release date (year) | 2018 | 2015 |
| Technology (Nm) | 14 | 14 |
| Socket | LGA 1151-2 | LGA 1151 |
| Virtualization | | |
| L3-Cache (MB) | 12 | 8 |
| Architecture | Coffee Lake | Skylake |
| Instruction set (ISA) | x86-64 (64 bit) | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| Thermal Management | | |
| TDP (PL1) (W) | 95 | 80 |
| Benchmarks | | |
| iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS) | 461 | - |
| Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark | 16,265 | 10,735 |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core) | 1,335 | 931 |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 7,031 | 3,761 |
| Cinebench R15 (Single-Core) | 219 | 163 |
| Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core) | 1,448 | 799 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core) | 2.61 | 1.98 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 15.96 | 8.93 |
| Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core) | 5,410 | 4,309 |
| Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 27,451 | 15,325 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (iGPU, OpenGL) | 43.7 | - |
| Blender 2.81 (bmw27) | 224.4 | - |
| Cinebench R23 (Single-Core) | 1,321 | 975 |
| Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core) | 10,209 | 4,832 |