Intel Core i9-9900KS vs Intel Xeon Gold 6138

Core i9-9900KS vs Xeon Gold 6138 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9900KS beats the Xeon Gold 6138 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Gold 6138 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon Gold 6138 has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Core i9-9900KS that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-9900KS. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9900KS has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon Gold 6138. Also, the Core i9-9900KS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon Gold 6138 outputs less heat than Core i9-9900KS thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Xeon Gold 6138 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-9900KS. The Xeon Gold 6138 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i9-9900KS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.