Intel Core i9-8950HK vs Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

Core i9-8950HK vs Xeon Gold 6226R comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon Gold 6226R beats the Core i9-8950HK in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-8950HK in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon Gold 6226R has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i9-8950HK has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-8950HK. Both the Core i9-8950HK and Xeon Gold 6226R have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i9-8950HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-8950HK CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Gold 6226R CPU because of its 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 i9-8950HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.