Intel Xeon Gold 6226R vs Intel Core i7-3940XM

Xeon Gold 6226R vs Core i7-3940XM benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3940XM 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 i7-3940XM has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3940XM. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3940XM has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Gold 6226R. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Core i7-3940XM 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.