Intel Xeon Gold 6126 vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Xeon Gold 6126 vs Ryzen 9 8940HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8940HX beats the Xeon Gold 6126 in overall performance. 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 Ryzen 9 8940HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Xeon Gold 6126 that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon Gold 6126. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Gold 6126. Also, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 8940HX 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6126 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. 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.