Intel Core i9-11900K vs Intel Xeon Gold 6126

Core i9-11900K vs Xeon Gold 6126 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon Gold 6126 is faster than the Core i9-11900K. Despite this, the Core i9-11900K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon Gold 6126 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i9-11900K has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-11900K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon Gold 6126. Also, the Core i9-11900K has a significantly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 i9-11900K. The Xeon Gold 6126 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i9-11900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.