Intel Core i9-12950HX vs Intel Xeon Gold 6126

Core i9-12950HX vs Xeon Gold 6126 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-12950HX beats the Xeon Gold 6126 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Gold 6126 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-12950HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Xeon Gold 6126 that has 12 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6126 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12950HX. Despite this, the Core i9-12950HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-12950HX 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6126 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-12950HX. The Xeon Gold 6126 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 i9-12950HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.