Xeon Gold 6226R vs E5-2670 v4

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Primary details

Comparing Xeon E5-2670 v4 and Xeon Gold 6226R processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated388
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data23.29
Market segmentServerServer
SeriesIntel Xeon E5Intel Xeon Gold
Power efficiencyno data10.44
Architecture codenameBroadwell (2015−2019)Cascade Lake (2019−2020)
Release date20 June 2016 (8 years ago)24 February 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$1,300

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Xeon E5-2670 v4 and Xeon Gold 6226R basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores14 (Tetradeca-Core)16 (Hexadeca-Core)
Threads2832
Base clock speedno data2.9 GHz
Boost clock speed3.1 GHz3.9 GHz
Bus typeQPIDMI 3.0
Bus rate2 × 9.6 GT/s4 × 8 GT/s
Multiplier3129
L1 cacheno data1 MB
L2 cache3.5 MB16 MB
L3 cache35 MB22 MB
Chip lithography14 nm14 nm
Die size306.18 mm2no data
Maximum core temperatureno data85 °C
Number of transistors4700 Millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+

Compatibility

Information on Xeon E5-2670 v4 and Xeon Gold 6226R compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration2 (Multiprocessor)no data
Socketno dataFCLGA3647
Power consumption (TDP)120 Watt150 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon E5-2670 v4 and Xeon Gold 6226R. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataIntel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512
AES-NI++
AVX++
vPro++
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)++
Speed Shiftno data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data2.0
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+
TSX++
Turbo Boost Max 3.0no data-
Deep Learning Boost-+

Security technologies

Xeon E5-2670 v4 and Xeon Gold 6226R technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT++
EDBno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon E5-2670 v4 and Xeon Gold 6226R are enumerated here.

VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Xeon E5-2670 v4 and Xeon Gold 6226R. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR4-2933
Maximum memory size1,536 GB1 TB
Max memory channelsno data6
Maximum memory bandwidthno data140.8 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Xeon E5-2670 v4 and Xeon Gold 6226R.

PCIe version3.03.0
PCI Express lanes4048

Pros & cons summary


Recency 20 June 2016 24 February 2020
Physical cores 14 16
Threads 28 32
Power consumption (TDP) 120 Watt 150 Watt

Xeon E5-2670 v4 has 25% lower power consumption.

Xeon Gold 6226R, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 3 years, and 14.3% more physical cores and 14.3% more threads.

We couldn't decide between Xeon E5-2670 v4 and Xeon Gold 6226R. We've got no test results to judge.


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