Intel Core i9-10900X vs Intel Xeon Silver 4210R

Compare Intel Core X-series 10 core CPU vs Intel 2nd Generation Xeon Scalable 10 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

$ 478.79
$ 45.84 slightly less expensive
$ 524.63

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7550 points
9% slightly better overall score
6883 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8222 points
40% slightly better gaming score
5843 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7324 points
1% slightly better multitasking score
7219 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7249 points
7294 points
0.62% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

202.00 points
23% slightly higher Blender score
163.91 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9481 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
6126 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1574 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1087 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
Identical
10

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
Identical
20

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
54% significantly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
40% slightly higher turbo speed
3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

165 W
100 W
64% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

48
Identical
48

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
6
49% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

165th of 1,089
199th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series
2nd Generation Xeon Scalable

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November
2020 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i9-10900X vs Xeon Silver 4210R comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-10900X is faster than the Xeon Silver 4210R. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Silver 4210R in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-10900X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon Silver 4210R. Also, the Core i9-10900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon Silver 4210R outputs less heat than Core i9-10900X thanks to a 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 i9-10900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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