Intel Xeon Gold 6338N vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600G. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Xeon Gold 5300/6300 AMD Ryzen 5000G
• Family
  Intel Xeon Gold Ryzen
• Generation
  3 4
• Predecessor
  - AMD Ryzen 5 4600G
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Form Factor
  - Desktops / Boxed Processor
• Series
  - Ryzen 5000 Series

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 3.9 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 4.4 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (32 Cores)
  2.8 GHz -
• Max. Boost Clock
  - 4.4 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
  - 4.2 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.

• DirectX Version
  - 12
• Execution units
  - 7
• Generation
  - 9
• GPU Frequency
  - 1900 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU Radeon Graphics
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo
• Max. displays
  - 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 2 GB
• Release date
  - Q1/2020
• Shader
  - 448
• Technology
  - 7 nm
• Graphics Cores
  - 7

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 5 5600G and Intel Xeon Gold 6338N. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes No
• Max. Memory
  6144 GB 64 GB
• Memory channels
  8 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 DDR4
• PCIe lanes
  64 24
• PCIe version
  4.0 3.0
• PCIe
  - PCIe 3.0
• System Memory Specification
  - 3200

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon Gold 6338N and AMD Ryzen 5 5600G 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
• TDP down
  - 45 W
• Configurable TDP
  - 45-65 W
• Default TDP
  - 65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon Gold 6338N and AMD Ryzen 5 5600G, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Ice Lake Cezanne (Zen 3)
• 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
• L2-Cache
  - 3 MB
• L3-Cache
  48 MB 16 MB
• Release date
  Q2/2021 2021-04-13
• Socket
  LGA 4189 AM4
• Technology
  10 nm TSMC 7nm FinFET
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM
• Codename
  - Cezanne
• Manufacturer product ID (boxed)
  - 100-100000252BOX
• Manufacturer product ID (MPK)
  - 100-100000252MPK
• Manufacturer product ID (tray)
  - 100-000000252
• Operating systems
  - Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition / Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition / RHEL x86 64-Bit / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit
• Thermal Solution (PIB)
  - AMD Wraith Stealth