Intel Xeon Gold 6226R vs Intel Xeon E3-1245 V2

Xeon Gold 6226R vs Xeon E3-1245 V2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1245 V2 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 Xeon E3-1245 V2. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6226R has 16 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E3-1245 V2. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1245 V2. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1245 V2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Gold 6226R.

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.