Intel Xeon E5-2630 v2 vs Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

Xeon E5-2630 v2 vs Xeon Gold 6226R benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2630 v2 beats the Xeon Gold 6226R in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon Gold 6226R has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon Gold 6226R has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-2630 v2. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6226R has 16 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon E5-2630 v2. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2630 v2. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6226R has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2630 v2. Also, the Xeon Gold 6226R has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2630 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 E5-2630 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.