Intel Xeon Platinum 8354H vs AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3975WX. 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
  3 3
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon Platinum 8300 AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3000

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
  3.10 GHz 3.50 GHz
• CPU Cores
  18 32
• Turbo (1 Core)
  4.30 GHz 4.20 GHz
• CPU Threads
  36 64
• 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 Threadripper PRO 3975WX and Intel Xeon Platinum 8354H. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-3200 DDR4-3200
• Max. Memory
  1152 GB 2048 GB
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  6 8
• PCIe version
  3.0 4.0
• PCIe lanes
  48 72

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon Platinum 8354H and AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3975WX to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  205 W 280 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 95 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon Platinum 8354H and Intel Xeon Platinum 8354H, 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
  -- 16.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  24.75 MB 128.00 MB
• Architecture
  Cooper Lake Castle Peak (Zen 2)
• Technology
  14 nm 7 nm
• Socket
  LGA 4189 WRX8 (sWRX8)
• Release date
  Q2/2020 Q3/2020