Intel Xeon Gold 6126 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS

Compare Intel Xeon Scalable 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 8000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8481 points

0.33% slightly better overall score

8453 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5942 points

10343 points

74% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9458 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

7801 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10072 points

32% slightly better heavy workload score

7601 points

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.59 GHz

3.30 GHz

27% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

5.1 GHz

37% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

28 W

346% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

200% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

24 MiB

200% significantly more L2 cache

8 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

38.5 MiB

140% significantly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

125th of 1,089

127th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon Scalable

Ryzen PRO 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon Gold 6126 vs Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon Gold 6126 is faster than the Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon Gold 6126 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon Gold 6126. Also, the Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS 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. In terms of cache, the Xeon Gold 6126 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 8840HS. 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 Xeon Gold 6126 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.