AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Xeon Gold 6126F. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 5000 Intel Xeon Gold 5100/6100
• Family
  Ryzen Intel Xeon Gold
• Form Factor
  Desktops / Boxed Processor -
• Generation
  4 1
• Predecessor
  AMD Ryzen 5 3600X -
• Segment
  Desktop Desktop / Server
• Series
  Ryzen 5000 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 2.6 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  6 12
• CPU Threads
  12 24
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Max. Boost Clock
  4.6 GHz -
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  4.6 GHz 3.7 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
  4.2 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (12 Cores)
  - 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
  None no iGPU
• GPU 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 6126F and AMD Ryzen 5 5600X. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Max. Memory
  128 GB -
• Memory channels
  2 6
• Memory type
  DDR4 DDR4-2666
• PCIe
  PCIe 4.0 -
• PCIe lanes
  20 48
• PCIe version
  4.0 3.0
• System Memory Specification
  3200 -

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 5 5600X and Intel Xeon Gold 6126F Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Default TDP
  65 W -
• Maximum Operating Temperature
  95 °C -
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  65 W 135 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 5 5600X and Intel Xeon Gold 6126F, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Vermeer (Zen 3) Skylake
• Codename
  Vermeer -
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
• L2-Cache
  3 MB -
• L3-Cache
  32 MB 19 MB
• Part Number
  100-000000065 -
• Release date
  2020-11-05 Q3/2017
• Socket
  AM4 LGA 3647
• Technology
  TSMC 7nm FinFET 14 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d