Intel Core i7-2600 vs Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs Intel 2nd Generation Xeon Scalable 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 226.37
$ 570.63 significantly less expensive
$ 797.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2539 points
0.95% slightly better overall score
2515 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3984 points
4643 points
16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2108 points
9% slightly better multitasking score
1920 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2031 points
10% slightly better heavy workload score
1844 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.63 points
260.30 points
573% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2040 points
9626 points
371% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

610 points
1351 points
121% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
16
300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
32
300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
17% slightly higher clock speed
2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
3.9 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
57% significantly lower TDP
150 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
48
200% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
6
200% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

619th of 1,089
625th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
2nd Generation Xeon Scalable

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February
2020 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR4-2933

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i7-2600 vs Xeon Gold 6226R specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-2600 is faster than the Xeon Gold 6226R. Despite this, the Xeon Gold 6226R has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon Gold 6226R has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i7-2600 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-2600. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-2600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon Gold 6226R. Despite this, the Xeon Gold 6226R has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-2600 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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