Intel Xeon Gold 6226R vs Intel Xeon Silver 4210R

Compare Intel 2nd Generation Xeon Scalable 16 core CPU vs Intel 2nd Generation Xeon Scalable 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 797.00
$ 524.63
$ 272.37 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2515 points
6883 points
173% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4643 points
5843 points
25% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1920 points
7219 points
275% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1844 points
7294 points
295% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

260.30 points
58% significantly higher Blender score
163.91 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9626 points
57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
6126 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1351 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1087 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
60% significantly more cores
10

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
60% significantly more threads
20

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz
20% slightly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
21% slightly higher turbo speed
3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

150 W
100 W
49% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

48
Identical
48

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

6
Identical
6

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

625th of 1,089
199th of 1,089

Family

The product line

2nd Generation Xeon Scalable
2nd Generation Xeon Scalable

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 February
2020 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933
DDR4-2400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
Yes

Xeon Gold 6226R vs Xeon Silver 4210R specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon Gold 6226R performs better than the Xeon Silver 4210R. Despite this, the Xeon Silver 4210R 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 Silver 4210R has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon Silver 4210R. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon Gold 6226R has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon Silver 4210R. Also, the Xeon Gold 6226R has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon Silver 4210R 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.

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