Intel Xeon Gold 6226R vs Intel Core i3-1220P

Xeon Gold 6226R vs Core i3-1220P benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-1220P beats the Xeon Gold 6226R in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon Gold 6226R has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon Gold 6226R has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i3-1220P has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-1220P. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6226R has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1220P. Despite this, the Core i3-1220P has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-1220P outputs less heat than Xeon Gold 6226R thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 6226R has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.