Intel Pentium Gold G6600 vs Intel Xeon E3-1220

Intel Pentium Gold G6600
Intel Socket 1200DESKTOP
4200 MHz / Cores: 2 / Apr 2020
Intel Pentium Gold G6600
Intel Xeon E3-1220
Intel Socket 1155SERVER
3100 MHz / Cores: 4 / Apr 2011
Intel Xeon E3-1220

Summary

Reasons to consider Intel Pentium Gold G6600

This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Has an integrated GPU, which allows to run the system without a dedicated graphics card, unlike the Intel Xeon E3-1220.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.

Reasons to consider Intel Xeon E3-1220

Higher theoretical multi-threaded performance, based on specifications plus core architecture.

Intel Pentium Gold G6600

Gaming

HWBench recommends Intel Pentium Gold G6600

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

Intel Xeon E3-1220

Productivity

HWBench recommends Intel Xeon E3-1220

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

Intel Pentium Gold G6600Intel Xeon E3-1220
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4.2
AVX
AVX2
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
VT-d
AES-NI
TSX
TXT
CLMUL
FMA3
F16C
BMI1
BMI2
ABM
ADX
RdRand

Architecture

Intel Pentium Gold G6600Intel Xeon E3-1220
ArchitectureIntel_CometlakevsIntel_SandyBridge
MarketDesktopvsServer
Memory SupportDDR4-2666 MHz Dual-channelvsDDR3
CodenameComet LakevsSandy Bridge
Release DateApr 2020vsApr 2011

Cores

Intel Pentium Gold G6600Intel Xeon E3-1220
Cores2vs4
Threads4vs8
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsUHD Graphics 630vsNo

Cache

Intel Pentium Gold G6600Intel Xeon E3-1220
L1 Cache64K (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache256K (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache4MB (shared)vs8192 KB (shared)

Physical

Intel Pentium Gold G6600Intel Xeon E3-1220
SocketIntel Socket 1200vsIntel Socket 1155
Max Case Temp72°Cvsunknown
PackageFC-LGA1200vsFC-LGA10
Die Sizeunknownvs216mm²
Process14 nmvs32 nm

Performance

Intel Pentium Gold G6600Intel Xeon E3-1220
Cpu Frequency4200 MHzvs3100 MHz
Turbo Clocknonevs3400 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
VoltageN/Avsunknown
TDP58 Wvs80 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Pentium Gold G6600
    5040 points
  • Intel Xeon E3-1220
    3400 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • Intel Pentium Gold G6600
    12096 points
  • Intel Xeon E3-1220
    14880 points

Points - higher is better