Intel Xeon Gold 6226R vs Intel Xeon E3-1240 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 E3-1240 V2

Price

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$ 797.00

$ 150.00

$ 647.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2515 points

2562 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4643 points

14% slightly better gaming score

4064 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1920 points

2114 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1844 points

2029 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

260.30 points

555% significantly higher Blender score

39.73 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

3.40 GHz

17% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

625th of 1,089

613th 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 E3-1240 V2 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E3-1240 V2 performs better than the Xeon Gold 6226R. 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 E3-1240 V2 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1240 V2. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1240 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon Gold 6226R.

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.