AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS vs Intel Xeon Gold 6126

Ryzen 9 8945HS vs Xeon Gold 6126 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8945HS beats the Xeon Gold 6126 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Gold 6126 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon Gold 6126 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 8945HS has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 8945HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 8945HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Gold 6126. Also, the Ryzen 9 8945HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 8945HS 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6126 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 8945HS. 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 8945HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.