Intel Xeon Gold 6126F vs AMD Ryzen 5 3500C. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Xeon Gold AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  1 2
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon Gold 5100/6100 AMD Ryzen 3000C

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
  2.60 GHz 2.10 GHz
• CPU Cores
  12 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.70 GHz 3.70 GHz
• CPU Threads
  24 8
• Hyperthreading
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No 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 Vega 8 Graphics
• GPU frequency
  1.20 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  8
• Shader
  512
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 2 GB
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  8
• DirectX Version
  12
• Technology
  14 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2018

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 5 3500C and Intel Xeon Gold 6126F. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 DDR4-2666
• Max. Memory
  64 GB
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  6 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  48 20

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon Gold 6126F and AMD Ryzen 5 3500C to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

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

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon Gold 6126F and Intel Xeon Gold 6126F, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  -- 2.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  19.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Skylake Picasso (Zen+)
• Technology
  14 nm 12 nm
• Socket
  LGA 3647 FP5
• Release date
  Q3/2017 Q3/2020