AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs Intel 2nd Generation Xeon Scalable 16 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

$ 269.00
$ 528.00 significantly less expensive
$ 797.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9859 points
292% significantly better overall score
2515 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9924 points
113% significantly better gaming score
4643 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9836 points
412% significantly better multitasking score
1920 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9828 points
432% significantly better heavy workload score
1844 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

313.97 points
20% slightly higher Blender score
260.30 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11794 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
9626 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2200 points
62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1351 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
32
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
27% slightly higher clock speed
2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
23% slightly higher turbo speed
3.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
42% much lower TDP
150 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

94th of 1,089
625th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
2nd Generation Xeon Scalable

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2020 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2933

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Xeon Gold 6226R specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900X beats the Xeon Gold 6226R in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Gold 6226R in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon Gold 6226R has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 5900X that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5900X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon Gold 6226R. Also, the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 5900X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Gold 6226R CPU because of its much lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 Ryzen 9 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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