Intel Core i5-11400 vs Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

Core i5-11400 vs Xeon Gold 6226R comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon Gold 6226R is faster than the Core i5-11400. Despite this, the Core i5-11400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon Gold 6226R has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-11400 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11400. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Gold 6226R. Also, the Core i5-11400 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-11400 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Gold 6226R CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-11400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.