AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  AMD Ryzen Intel Xeon E5
• Generation
  4 6
• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 5000 Intel Xeon E5 v4
• Predecessor
  AMD Ryzen 9 3900X Intel Xeon E5-2680 v3

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  3.70 GHz 2.40 GHz
• CPU Cores
  12 14
• Turbo (1 Core)
  4.80 GHz 3.30 GHz
• CPU Threads
  24 28
• Hyperthreading
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  no iGPU no iGPU
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  No No
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• JPEG
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 and AMD Ryzen 9 5900X. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-3200 DDR4-2400
• Max. Memory
  128 GB
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  2 4
• PCIe version
  4.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  20 40

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  105 W 120 W
• TDP (PL2)
  142 W --
• Tjunction max.
  95 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  6.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  64.00 MB 35.00 MB
• Architecture
  Vermeer (Zen 3) Broadwell E
• Technology
  7 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  AM4 LGA 2011-3
• Release date
  Q4/2020 Q1/2016