AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  AMD Ryzen 9 Intel Xeon E5
• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 7000 Intel Xeon E5 v3
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Generation
  6 5
• Predecessor
  -- Intel Xeon E5-2690 v2
• Successor
  -- Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4

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.

• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Overclocking
  No No
• Frequency
  4.20 GHz 2.60 GHz

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
  AMD Radeon Graphics (Raphael) no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  0.40 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  2.20 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  2
• Shader
  128
• Max. GPU Memory
  8 GB --
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  9
• Technology
  5 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2022

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR5-5200 DDR4-2133
• Max. Memory
  128 GB
• Memory channels
  2 (Dual Channel) 4
• ECC
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D and Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL2)
  162 W --
• Tjunction max.
  89 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Technology
  5 nm 22 nm
• Socket
  AM5 (LGA 1718) LGA 2011-3
• L2-Cache
  16.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  128.00 MB 30.00 MB
• Architecture
  Raphael (Zen 4) Haswell E
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• Release date
  Q1/2023 Q3/2014