Intel Xeon Gold 6138 vs AMD Ryzen 9 5950X. 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 4
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon Gold 5100/6100 AMD Ryzen 5000
• Predecessor
  -- AMD Ryzen 9 3950X

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
  2.00 GHz 3.40 GHz
• CPU Cores
  20 16
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.70 GHz 4.90 GHz
• CPU Threads
  40 32
• Hyperthreading
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• 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 frequency
  --
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  --
• Shader
  --
• Max. displays
  --
• Generation
  --
• DirectX Version
  --
• Technology
  --
• Release date
  --

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 AMD Ryzen 9 5950X and Intel Xeon Gold 6138. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 DDR4-3200
• Max. Memory
  128 GB
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  6 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 4.0
• PCIe lanes
  48 20

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon Gold 6138 and AMD Ryzen 9 5950X to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

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

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon Gold 6138 and Intel Xeon Gold 6138, 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
  -- 8.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  28.00 MB 64.00 MB
• Architecture
  Skylake Vermeer (Zen 3)
• Technology
  14 nm 7 nm
• Socket
  LGA 3647 AM4
• Release date
  Q3/2017 Q4/2020