Intel Xeon Platinum 8168 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7950X. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Xeon Platinum AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  1 5
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon Platinum 8100 AMD Ryzen 7000
• Predecessor
  -- AMD Ryzen 9 5950X

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
  2.70 GHz 4.50 GHz
• 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
  --
• 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 7950X and Intel Xeon Platinum 8168. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 DDR5-5200
• Max. Memory
  256 GB
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  6 2

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon Platinum 8168 and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  205 W 170 W
• TDP (PL2)
  -- 230 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 95 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon Platinum 8168 and Intel Xeon Platinum 8168, 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
  33.00 MB 64.00 MB
• Architecture
  Skylake Raphael (Zen 4)
• Technology
  14 nm 5 nm
• Socket
  LGA 3647 AM5
• Release date
  Q3/2017 Q4/2022