Intel Xeon W-2155 vs Intel Core i9-9900X. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Xeon W Intel Core i9
• Generation
  6 9
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon W-2100/3100 Intel Core i 9000X
• Successor
  Intel Xeon W-2255 --

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
  3.30 GHz 3.50 GHz
• CPU Cores
  10 10
• Turbo (1 Core)
  4.50 GHz 4.50 GHz
• CPU Threads
  20 20
• Turbo (10 Cores)
  4.00 GHz 4.30 GHz
• 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 Intel Core i9-9900X and Intel Xeon W-2155. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 DDR4-2666
• Max. Memory
  512 GB 128 GB
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  4 4
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  48 44

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon W-2155 and Intel Core i9-9900X to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  140 W 165 W
• Tjunction max.
  -- 92 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon W-2155 and Intel Xeon W-2155, 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 VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
• L3-Cache
  13.75 MB 19.00 MB
• Architecture
  Skylake W Skylake X Refresh
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  LGA 2066 LGA 2066
• Release date
  Q3/2017 Q4/2018