AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Intel Xeon Gold 6126

Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Xeon Gold 6126 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon Gold 6126 beats the Ryzen 9 7940HS in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon Gold 6126 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 7940HS that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Gold 6126. Also, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 7940HS CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Gold 6126 CPU because of its significantly 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 6126 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 7940HS. The Xeon Gold 6126 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Ryzen 9 7940HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.