Intel Core i5-11500B vs AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3945WX. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Intel Core i5 AMD Ryzen
• CPU group
  Intel Core i 11000 AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3000
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Generation
  11 3
• Predecessor
  Intel Core i5-10500 --

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 Yes
• Frequency
  3.30 GHz 4.00 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
  Intel UHD Graphics 11th Gen (32 EU) no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  0.35 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  1.45 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  32
• Shader
  256
• Max. GPU Memory
  64 GB --
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  11
• Technology
  10 nm
• Release date
  Q2/2021

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
  Decode No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3945WX and Intel Core i5-11500B. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-3200 DDR4-3200
• Max. Memory
  128 GB 2048 GB
• Memory channels
  2 (Dual Channel) 8
• ECC
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core i5-11500B and AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3945WX to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  65 W 280 W
• TDP (PL2)
  154 W / 56 s --
• Tjunction max.
  100 °C 95 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core i5-11500B and Intel Core i5-11500B, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Technology
  14 nm 7 nm
• Socket
  LGA 1200 WRX8 (sWRX8)
• L2-Cache
  3.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  12.00 MB 64.00 MB
• Architecture
  Rocket Lake S Castle Peak (Zen 2)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• Release date
  Q2/2021 Q1/2021