Intel Core i7-11700 vs Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

Core i7-11700 vs Xeon Gold 6226R specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11700 beats the Xeon Gold 6226R in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Gold 6226R in all gaming tests too.

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 i7-11700 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11700. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon Gold 6226R has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-11700. Despite this, the Core i7-11700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-11700 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 i7-11700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.