AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X vs AMD Ryzen Embedded V2516. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  AMD Ryzen AMD Ryzen Embedded
• Generation
  1 2
• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1000 AMD Ryzen Embedded V2000

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
  3.40 GHz 2.10 GHz
• CPU Cores
  16 6
• Turbo (1 Core)
  4.00 GHz 3.95 GHz
• CPU Threads
  32 12
• 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 AMD Radeon 6 Graphics (Renoir)
• GPU frequency
  1.50 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  6
• Shader
  384
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 2 GB
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  9
• DirectX Version
  12
• Technology
  7 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2020

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen Embedded V2516 and AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 DDR4-3200LPDDR4X-3200
• Max. Memory
  64 GB
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  4 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  64 20

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and AMD Ryzen Embedded V2516 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  180 W 15 W
• TDP up
  -- 10 W
• TDP down
  -- 25 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 105 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM AMD-V, SVM
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  -- 3.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  32.00 MB 6.00 MB
• Architecture
  Whitehaven (Zen) Grey Hawk (Zen 2)
• Technology
  14 nm 7 nm
• Socket
  TR4 (SP3r2) FP6
• Release date
  Q3/2017 Q4/2020