Intel Xeon Gold 6338 vs AMD Ryzen 5 3600X. 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
  3 3
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon Gold 5300/6300 AMD Ryzen 3000
• Predecessor
  -- AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
• Successor
  -- AMD Ryzen 5 5600X

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 3.80 GHz
• CPU Cores
  32 6
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.20 GHz 4.40 GHz
• CPU Threads
  64 12
• 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 (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo

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 5 3600X and Intel Xeon Gold 6338. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-3200 DDR4-3200
• Max. Memory
  6144 GB 128 GB
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  8 2
• PCIe version
  4.0 4.0
• PCIe lanes
  64 20

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon Gold 6338 and AMD Ryzen 5 3600X to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  205 W 95 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 95 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon Gold 6338 and Intel Xeon Gold 6338, 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
• L3-Cache
  48.00 MB 32.00 MB
• Architecture
  Ice Lake Matisse (Zen 2)
• Technology
  10 nm 7 nm
• Socket
  LGA 4189 AM4
• Release date
  Q2/2021 Q3/2019