Intel Xeon w5-3435X vs AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Intel Xeon W AMD Ryzen 9
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon W-3400 AMD Ryzen 7000
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Generation
  12 6
• Predecessor
  Intel Xeon W-3335 --

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.

• CPU Cores / Threads
  16 / 32 16 / 32
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Cores
  16x 16x Zen 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Frequency
  3.10 GHz 4.20 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  4.70 GHz 5.70 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (16 Cores)
  3.70 GHz 5.00 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 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
• Direct X
  -- 12
• 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
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  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 7950X3D and Intel Xeon w5-3435X. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR5-4800 DDR5-5200
• Max. Memory
  4096 GB 128 GB
• Memory channels
  8 (Octa Channel) 2 (Dual Channel)
• Bandwidth
  307.2 GB/s 83.2 GB/s
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• PCIe
  5.0 x 112 5.0 x 24
• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon w5-3435X and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1 / PBP)
  270 W 120 W
• TDP (PL2)
  -- 162 W
• TDP up
  324 W --
• Tjunction max.
  98 °C 89 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon w5-3435X and Intel Xeon w5-3435X, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Technology
  10 nm 5 nm
• Chip design
  Monolithic Chiplet
• Socket
  LGA 4677 AM5 (LGA 1718)
• L2-Cache
  -- 16.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  45.00 MB 128.00 MB
• Architecture
  Sapphire Rapids-WS Raphael (Zen 4)
• Operating systems
  Windows 11, Windows Server, Linux Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d, VT-rp, vPro Enterprise AMD-V, SVM
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512, AMX SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512
• Release date
  Q1/2023 Q1/2023
• Release price
  1589 $ --
• Documents
  Technical data sheet Technical data sheet