Intel Core i7-2600K 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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Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

Price

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$ 84.99

$ 712.01 significantly less expensive

$ 797.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2571 points

2% slightly better overall score

2515 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4067 points

4643 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2123 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

1920 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2039 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

1844 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.04 points

260.30 points

490% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2289 points

9626 points

320% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

665 points

1351 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

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

200% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

200% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

612th of 1,089

625th of 1,089

Family

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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

Yes

Core i7-2600K vs Xeon Gold 6226R comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-2600K performs better than the Xeon Gold 6226R. Despite this, the Xeon Gold 6226R 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 i7-2600K that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-2600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-2600K 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 i7-2600K 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.

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 i7-2600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.