Intel Xeon Gold 6226R vs Intel Xeon E5-620

Xeon Gold 6226R vs Xeon E5-620 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-620 beats the Xeon Gold 6226R in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon Gold 6226R has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon Gold 6226R has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Xeon E5-620 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-620. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6226R has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-620. Also, the Xeon Gold 6226R has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-620 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.