Intel Core i7-6700HQ vs Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

Core i7-6700HQ vs Xeon Gold 6226R benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon Gold 6226R is faster than the Core i7-6700HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700HQ in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon Gold 6226R has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i7-6700HQ has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700HQ. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6226R has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6700HQ. Also, the Xeon Gold 6226R has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-6700HQ 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 i7-6700HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.