Intel Core i9-9900KF vs Intel Xeon Silver 4210R

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs Intel 2nd Generation Xeon Scalable 10 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

$ 399.00
$ 125.63 significantly less expensive
$ 524.63

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6827 points
6883 points
0.82% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8465 points
44% significantly better gaming score
5843 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6279 points
7219 points
14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6130 points
7294 points
18% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

176.47 points
7% slightly higher Blender score
163.91 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8172 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
6126 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1723 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1087 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
10
25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
20
25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
49% significantly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
56% significantly higher turbo speed
3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
5% slightly lower TDP
100 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

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

204th of 1,089
199th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i9
2nd Generation Xeon Scalable

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 February
2020 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i9-9900KF vs Xeon Silver 4210R specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9900KF beats the Xeon Silver 4210R in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Silver 4210R in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon Silver 4210R has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i9-9900KF has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-9900KF. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9900KF has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon Silver 4210R. Also, the Core i9-9900KF has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-9900KF CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Silver 4210R 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 i9-9900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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