AMD Ryzen 5 3500C vs Intel Xeon Gold 6132. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  AMD Ryzen Intel Xeon Gold
• Generation
  2 1
• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 3000C Intel Xeon Gold 5100/6100

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
  2.10 GHz 2.60 GHz
• CPU Cores
  4 14
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.70 GHz 3.70 GHz
• CPU Threads
  8 28
• Hyperthreading
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• 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
  AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics no iGPU
• GPU frequency
  1.20 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  8
• Shader
  512
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB --
• Max. displays
  3
• Generation
  8
• DirectX Version
  12
• Technology
  14 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2018

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

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• h264
  Decode / Encode No
• VP9
  Decode / Encode No
• VP8
  Decode / Encode No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode No
• VC-1
  Decode No
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Xeon Gold 6132 and AMD Ryzen 5 3500C. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2666 DDR4-2666
• Max. Memory
  64 GB
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  2 6
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  20 48

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 5 3500C and Intel Xeon Gold 6132 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W 140 W
• TDP up
  25 W --
• TDP down
  12 W --
• Tjunction max.
  105 °C --

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 5 3500C and AMD Ryzen 5 3500C, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
• L2-Cache
  2.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 25.00 MB
• Architecture
  Picasso (Zen+) Skylake
• Technology
  12 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  FP5 LGA 3647
• Release date
  Q3/2020 Q3/2017