Intel Xeon Gold 6126 vs Intel Core i7-12850HX

Xeon Gold 6126 vs Core i7-12850HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12850HX is faster than the Xeon Gold 6126. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Gold 6126 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12850HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Xeon Gold 6126 that has 12 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6126 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12850HX. Despite this, the Core i7-12850HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-12850HX outputs less heat than Xeon Gold 6126 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Xeon Gold 6126 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-12850HX. 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 Xeon Gold 6126 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.