Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs Intel Xeon Gold 6126

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 16 core CPU vs Intel Xeon Scalable 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon Gold 6126

Price

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$ 1277.90

$ 147.00

$ 1130.90 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8324 points

8481 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6186 points

4% slightly better gaming score

5942 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9116 points

9458 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9598 points

10072 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.60 GHz

0.27% slightly higher clock speed

2.59 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

145 W

125 W

16% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

24 MiB

499% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

40 MiB

3% slightly more L3 cache

38.5 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 1,089

125th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Xeon Scalable

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 February

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR4-2666

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2697A v4 vs Xeon Gold 6126 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon Gold 6126 is faster than the Xeon E5-2697A v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has slightly more cores than the Xeon Gold 6126. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has 16 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Xeon Gold 6126. It also has more threads than the Xeon Gold 6126. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Gold 6126. Despite this, the Xeon Gold 6126 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon Gold 6126 outputs less heat than Xeon E5-2697A v4 thanks to a slightly 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 Xeon E5-2697A v4. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2697A v4 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Xeon Gold 6126.

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 E5-2697A v4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.