Intel Xeon Gold 6226R vs Intel Core i7-4710MQ

Compare Intel 2nd Generation Xeon Scalable 16 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 797.00
$ 79.95
$ 717.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2515 points
1% slightly better overall score
2474 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4643 points
16% slightly better gaming score
3988 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1920 points
2030 points
5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1844 points
1950 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

260.30 points
520% significantly higher Blender score
41.96 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9626 points
216% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3040 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1351 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1015 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
300% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
300% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed
2.50 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed
3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

150 W
47 W
219% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

48
200% significantly more pcie lanes
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

6
200% significantly more memory channels
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

625th of 1,089
633rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

2nd Generation Xeon Scalable
4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 February
2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933
DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Xeon Gold 6226R vs Core i7-4710MQ specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon Gold 6226R is faster than the Core i7-4710MQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4710MQ in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon Gold 6226R has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i7-4710MQ that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4710MQ. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon Gold 6226R has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4710MQ. Also, the Xeon Gold 6226R has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4710MQ 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.

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

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