Intel Xeon E-2226GE vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

Last updated:

CPU comparison with benchmarks


Intel Xeon E-2226GE CPU1 vs CPU2 Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
Intel Xeon E-2226GE Qualcomm Snapdragon 821

CPU comparison

In this CPU comparison, we compare the Intel Xeon E-2226GE and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 and use benchmarks to check which processor is faster.

We compare the Intel Xeon E-2226GE 6 core processor released in Q2/2019 with the Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 which has 4 CPU cores and was introduced in Q3/2016.
Intel Xeon E (44) Family Qualcomm Snapdragon (102)
Intel Xeon E-2200 (19) CPU group Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 (3)
2 Generation 3
Coffee Lake S Architecture Kryo
Desktop / Server Segment Mobile
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Xeon E-2226GE is a 6 core processor with a clock frequency of 3.40 GHz (4.60 GHz). The processor can compute 6 threads at the same time. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 clocks with 2.40 GHz, has 4 CPU cores and can calculate 4 threads in parallel.

Intel Xeon E-2226GE Characteristic Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
6 Cores 4
6 Threads 4
normal Core architecture hybrid (big.LITTLE)
No Hyperthreading No
No Overclocking ? No
3.40 GHz (4.60 GHz) A-Core 2.40 GHz
2x Kryo
-- B-Core 1.60 GHz
2x Kryo

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

Intel Xeon E-2226GE Characteristic Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
-- AI hardware Qualcomm AI engine
-- AI specifications Hexagon 680

Internal Graphics

Graphics (iGPU) integrated into the processor not only enable image output without having to rely on a dedicated graphics solution, but can also efficiently accelerate video playback.

Intel UHD Graphics P630 GPU Qualcomm Adreno 530
0.35 GHz GPU frequency 0.62 GHz
1.20 GHz GPU (Turbo) 0.62 GHz
9.5 GPU Generation 5
14 nm Technology 14 nm
3 Max. displays 0
24 Compute units --
192 Shader 256
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
64 GB Max. GPU Memory --
12 DirectX Version 11,1

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

Intel UHD Graphics P630 GPU Qualcomm Adreno 530
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) No
Decode / Encode Codec h264 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec VP9 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec VP8 Decode
No Codec AV1 No
Decode / Encode Codec AVC No
Decode Codec VC-1 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec JPEG Decode

Memory & PCIe

Up to 128 GB of memory in a maximum of 2 memory channels is supported by the Intel Xeon E-2226GE, while the Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 supports a maximum of 8 GB of memory with a maximum memory bandwidth of 14.9 GB/s enabled.

Intel Xeon E-2226GE Characteristic Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
DDR4-2666 Memory LPDDR4-3733
128 GB Max. Memory 8 GB
2 (Dual Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
42.7 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 14.9 GB/s
Yes ECC No
-- L2 Cache --
12.00 MB L3 Cache --
3.0 PCIe version --
16 PCIe lanes --
15.8 GB/s PCIe Bandwidth --

Thermal Management

The Intel Xeon E-2226GE has a TDP of 80 W. The TDP of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 is --. System integrators use the TDP of the processor as a guide when dimensioning the cooling solution.

Intel Xeon E-2226GE Characteristic Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
80 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) --
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
100 °C Tjunction max. --

Technical details

The Intel Xeon E-2226GE has 12.00 MB cache and is manufactured in 14 nm. The cache of Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 is at 0.00 MB. The processor is manufactured in 14 nm.

Intel Xeon E-2226GE Characteristic Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
14 nm Technology 14 nm
Monolithic Chip design Chiplet
x86-64 (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) Armv8-A (64 bit)
SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 ISA extensions --
LGA 1151-2 Socket --
VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d Virtualization None
Yes AES-NI No
Windows 10, Linux Operating systems Android
Q2/2019 Release date Q3/2016
255 $ Release price --
show more data show more data


Rate these processors

Here you can rate the Intel Xeon E-2226GE to help other visitors make their purchasing decisions. The average rating is 0 stars (0 ratings). Rate now:
Here you can rate the Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 to help other visitors make their purchasing decisions. The average rating is 0 stars (0 ratings). Rate now:


Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks
Intel Xeon E-2226GE (100%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 (28%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks
Intel Xeon E-2226GE (100%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 (18%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Xeon E-2226GE Intel Xeon E-2226GE
6C 6T @ 4.60 GHz
1218 (100%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
341 (28%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Xeon E-2226GE Intel Xeon E-2226GE
6C 6T @ 3.90 GHz
4753 (100%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
864 (18%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
Intel Xeon E-2226GE Intel Xeon E-2226GE
Intel UHD Graphics P630 @ 1.20 GHz
461 (97%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
Qualcomm Adreno 530 @ 0.62 GHz
476 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
Intel Xeon E-2226GE Intel Xeon E-2226GE
6C 6T @ 4.60 GHz
0 (0%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
370 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
Intel Xeon E-2226GE Intel Xeon E-2226GE
6C 6T @ 3.90 GHz
0 (0%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
752 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Xeon E-2226GE Intel Xeon E-2226GE
6C 6T @ 4.60 GHz
456 (100%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Xeon E-2226GE Intel Xeon E-2226GE
6C 6T @ 3.90 GHz
2407 (100%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
0 (0%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
Intel Xeon E-2226GE Intel Xeon E-2226GE
6C 6T @ 3.90 GHz
0 (0%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
1594 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Xeon E-2226GE Intel Xeon E-2226GE
6C 6T @ 4.60 GHz
207 (100%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Xeon E-2226GE Intel Xeon E-2226GE
6C 6T @ 3.90 GHz
987 (100%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
4C 4T @ 2.40 GHz
0 (0%)

Devices using this processor

Intel Xeon E-2226GE Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
Unknown Unknown

Popular comparisons containing this CPUs

1. Qualcomm Snapdragon 821Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 888
2. Qualcomm Snapdragon 821Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G
3. Qualcomm Snapdragon 821Qualcomm Snapdragon 695 5G Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 695 5G
4. Qualcomm Snapdragon 870Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
5. Qualcomm Snapdragon 821Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 810
6. Qualcomm Snapdragon 821Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 820
7. Qualcomm Snapdragon 780GQualcomm Snapdragon 821 Qualcomm Snapdragon 780G vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
8. Qualcomm Snapdragon 750GQualcomm Snapdragon 821 Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
9. Qualcomm Snapdragon 855Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
10. Qualcomm Snapdragon 845Qualcomm Snapdragon 821 Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 821


back to index