Intel Xeon Platinum 8260 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900. 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 9
• Generation
  2 6
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon Platinum 8200/9200 AMD Ryzen 7000
• Predecessor
  -- AMD Ryzen 9 5900

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
  2.40 GHz 3.80 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 AMD Radeon Graphics (Raphael)
• GPU frequency
  0.40 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 2.20 GHz
• Execution units
  2
• Shader
  128
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 8 GB
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  9
• Technology
  5 nm
• Release date
  Q3/2022

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

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h264
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 9 7900 and Intel Xeon Platinum 8260. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2933 DDR5-5200
• Max. Memory
  128 GB
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  6 2 (Dual Channel)

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon Platinum 8260 and AMD Ryzen 9 7900 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  165 W 65 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 95 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon Platinum 8260 and Intel Xeon Platinum 8260, 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,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512
• L2-Cache
  -- 12.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  35.75 MB 64.00 MB
• Architecture
  Cascade Lake Raphael (Zen 4)
• Technology
  14 nm 5 nm
• Socket
  LGA 3647 AM5 (LGA 1718)
• Release date
  Q2/2019 Q1/2023