Intel Xeon Gold 6226R vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U

Compare Intel 2nd Generation Xeon Scalable 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 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

2515 points

2650 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4643 points

10% slightly better gaming score

4215 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1920 points

2190 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1844 points

2104 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

260.30 points

443% significantly higher Blender score

47.87 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9626 points

268% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2612 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1351 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

903 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz

38% slightly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

150 W

15 W

900% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

200% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

625th of 1,089

602nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

2nd Generation Xeon Scalable

Ryzen 5 PRO Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 February

2019 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon Gold 6226R vs Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U beats the Xeon Gold 6226R in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon Gold 6226R has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon Gold 6226R has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6226R has 16 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U. Our comparison shows that the Xeon Gold 6226R has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U. Also, the Xeon Gold 6226R has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U 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.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6226R has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.