Intel Core i7-7700HQ vs Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

Core i7-7700HQ vs Xeon Gold 6226R specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-7700HQ beats the Xeon Gold 6226R in overall performance. 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 i7-7700HQ has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7700HQ. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6226R has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-7700HQ. Also, the Xeon Gold 6226R has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-7700HQ 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 i7-7700HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.