Intel Core i9-11900F vs Intel Xeon Gold 6126

Core i9-11900F vs Xeon Gold 6126 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon Gold 6126 beats the Core i9-11900F in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-11900F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon Gold 6126 has significantly more cores than the Core i9-11900F. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6126 has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i9-11900F. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900F. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon Gold 6126 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-11900F. Despite this, the Core i9-11900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-11900F CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Gold 6126 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Xeon Gold 6126 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-11900F. The Xeon Gold 6126 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i9-11900F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.