AMD EPYC 9124 vs Intel Xeon Gold 6136. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  AMD EPYC 9004 Intel Xeon Gold 5100/6100
• Family
  AMD EPYC Intel Xeon Gold
• Generation
  4 1
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server

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

• Base Frequency
  3 GHz 3 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Core Configuration
  16x Zen 4 -
• CPU Cores
  16 12
• CPU Threads
  32 24
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.7 GHz 3.7 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (16 Cores)
  3.6 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (12 Cores)
  - 3.3 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 no iGPU
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Xeon Gold 6136 and AMD EPYC 9124. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Max. Memory
  6144 GB -
• Memory Bandwidth
  461 GB/s -
• Memory channels
  12 6
• Memory type
  DDR5-4800 DDR4-2666
• PCIe
  5.0 x 128 -
• PCIe lanes
  - 48
• PCIe version
  - 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD EPYC 9124 and Intel Xeon Gold 6136 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
  100 °C -
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  200 W 150 W
• TDP up
  240 W -

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD EPYC 9124 and Intel Xeon Gold 6136, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Genoa (Zen 4) Skylake
• Chip design
  Chiplet -
• Documents
  Technical data sheet -
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512, BFLOAT16, VNNI SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
• L2-Cache
  16 MB -
• L3-Cache
  64 MB 25 MB
• Operating systems
  Windows Server 2022, Linux, Windows 11 -
• Part Number
  100-000000802 -
• Release date
  Q4/2022 Q3/2017
• Release price
  1083 $ -
• Socket
  SP5 LGA 3647
• Technology
  5 nm 14 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d