Intel Xeon Gold 6338N vs AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AF. Specifications

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

• CPU group
  Intel Xeon Gold 5300/6300 AMD Ryzen 2000
• Family
  Intel Xeon Gold AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  3 2
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  2.2 GHz 3.2 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  32 6
• CPU Threads
  64 12
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.5 GHz 3.6 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (32 Cores)
  2.8 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
  - 3.4 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
  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.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AF and Intel Xeon Gold 6338N. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Max. Memory
  6144 GB -
• Memory channels
  8 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 DDR4-2666
• PCIe lanes
  64 20
• PCIe version
  4.0 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon Gold 6338N and AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AF Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  - 95 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  185 W 65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon Gold 6338N and AMD Ryzen 5 1600 AF, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Ice Lake Pinnacle Ridge (Zen+)
• 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
• L3-Cache
  48 MB 16 MB
• Release date
  Q2/2021 Q4/2019
• Socket
  LGA 4189 AM4
• Technology
  10 nm 12 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM