Intel Core i9-9900K vs Intel Xeon Gold 6128

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon Scalable 6 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

$ 350.22
$ 210.69
$ 139.53 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6719 points
6872 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8223 points
24% slightly better gaming score
6615 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6214 points
7015 points
12% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6073 points
7122 points
17% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

175.64 points
47% significantly higher Blender score
118.73 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7957 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
6014 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1634 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1194 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8053 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
6063 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1703 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1178 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed
3.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
35% slightly higher turbo speed
3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
21% slightly lower TDP
115 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
48
200% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
6
200% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
768 GiB
499% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

209th of 1,089
202nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i9
Xeon Scalable

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November
2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i9-9900K vs Xeon Gold 6128 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon Gold 6128 beats the Core i9-9900K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-9900K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-9900K has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon Gold 6128 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon Gold 6128. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon Gold 6128. Also, the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-9900K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Gold 6128 CPU because of its slightly 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 i9-9900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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