Intel Xeon Gold 6226R vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

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

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Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Price

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$ 797.00

$ 189.95

$ 607.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2515 points

2544 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4643 points

14% slightly better gaming score

4070 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1920 points

2091 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1844 points

2009 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

260.30 points

554% significantly higher Blender score

39.80 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

3.30 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

625th of 1,089

618th of 1,089

Family

The product line

2nd Generation Xeon Scalable

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon Gold 6226R vs Xeon E3-1230 V2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1230 V2 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 Xeon E3-1230 V2 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon Gold 6226R.

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.