Intel Xeon W-2255 vs AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition. Specifications

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

• CPU group
  Intel Xeon W-2200/3200 -
• Family
  Intel Xeon W Ryzen
• Generation
  7 -
• Predecessor
  Intel Xeon W-2155 -
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop
• Form Factor
  - Desktops / Boxed Processor
• Series
  - Ryzen 9000 Series

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  3.7 GHz 4.3 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal -
• CPU Cores
  10 16
• CPU Threads
  20 32
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes -
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  4.7 GHz 5.6 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (10 Cores)
  4.4 GHz -
• Max. Boost Clock
  - 5.6 GHz

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 Frequency
  - 2200 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU AMD Radeon Graphics
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo -
• Graphics Cores
  - 2

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

• AV1
  No -
• H.264 / AVC
  No -
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No -
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No -
• JPEG
  No -
• VC-1
  No -
• VP8
  No -
• VP9
  No -

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition and Intel Xeon W-2255. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes -
• Max. Memory
  1024 GB -
• Memory channels
  4 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-2933 DDR5
• PCIe lanes
  48 -
• PCIe version
  3.0 -
• PCIe
  - PCIe 5.0

• AES-NI
  Yes -

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon W-2255 and AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  - 95 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  165 W -
• Default TDP
  - 200 W
• TDP (PL1 / PBP, legacy combined label)
  - 200 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon W-2255 and AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Cascade Lake W Zen 5
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) -
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 -
• L2-Cache
  - 16 MB
• L3-Cache
  19.25 MB 192 MB
• Release date
  Q4/2019 2026-04-22
• Socket
  LGA 2066 AM5
• Technology
  14 nm TSMC 4nm FinFET
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d -
• Codename
  - Granite Ridge AM5
• I/O die process
  - TSMC 6nm FinFET