Intel Core i7-13700HX vs Intel Xeon Gold 6126

Core i7-13700HX vs Xeon Gold 6126 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-13700HX is faster than the Xeon Gold 6126. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Gold 6126 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-13700HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Xeon Gold 6126 that has 12 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon Gold 6126 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13700HX. Despite this, the Core i7-13700HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Xeon Gold 6126 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-13700HX. The Xeon Gold 6126 also has slightly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-13700HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.