Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2 vs Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 6 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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Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

Price

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$ 60.25

$ 736.75 significantly less expensive

$ 797.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2495 points

2515 points

0.80% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3457 points

4643 points

34% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2187 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

1920 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2116 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

1844 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

29.84 points

260.30 points

772% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2144 points

9626 points

348% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

440 points

1351 points

207% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.2 GHz

2.9 GHz

31% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.7 GHz

3.9 GHz

44% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

87% significantly lower TDP

150 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

100% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

628th of 1,089

625th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family

2nd Generation Xeon Scalable

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 February

2020 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4-2933

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2420 v2 vs Xeon Gold 6226R specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon Gold 6226R is faster than the Xeon E5-2420 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2420 v2 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon Gold 6226R has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2420 v2. Our comparison shows that the Xeon Gold 6226R has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2420 v2. Also, the Xeon Gold 6226R has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2420 v2 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Gold 6226R CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 Xeon E5-2420 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.