Intel Core i9-10900X vs Intel Xeon Gold 6138

Core i9-10900X vs Xeon Gold 6138 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-10900X performs better than the Xeon Gold 6138. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Gold 6138 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon Gold 6138 has significantly more cores than the Core i9-10900X. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6138 has 20 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core i9-10900X. It also has more threads than the Core i9-10900X. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-10900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Gold 6138. Also, the Core i9-10900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon Gold 6138 outputs less heat than Core i9-10900X thanks to a slightly 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 i9-10900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.