Intel Xeon Platinum 8368 vs AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X. 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 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
  2.40 GHz 2.90 GHz
• CPU Cores
  38 64
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.40 GHz 4.30 GHz
• CPU Threads
  76 128
• 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 3990X and Intel Xeon Platinum 8368. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-3200 DDR4-3200
• Max. Memory
  6144 GB 2048 GB
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  8 4
• PCIe version
  4.0 4.0
• PCIe lanes
  64 72

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon Platinum 8368 and AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

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

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon Platinum 8368 and Intel Xeon Platinum 8368, 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
• L3-Cache
  57.00 MB 256.00 MB
• Architecture
  Ice Lake Castle Peak (Zen 2)
• Technology
  10 nm 7 nm
• Socket
  LGA 4189 TRX4 (sTRX4)
• Release date
  Q2/2021 Q1/2020