AMD Ryzen 9 8945H vs Intel Xeon Gold 6126

Ryzen 9 8945H vs Xeon Gold 6126 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon Gold 6126 is faster than the Ryzen 9 8945H. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8945H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon Gold 6126 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 8945H. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6126 has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 9 8945H. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 8945H. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 8945H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Gold 6126. In terms of cache, the Xeon Gold 6126 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 8945H. The Xeon Gold 6126 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 Ryzen 9 8945H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.