AMD Ryzen 9 7950X vs Intel Xeon w5-3425. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  AMD Ryzen Intel Xeon W
• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 7000 Intel Xeon W-3400
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Generation
  5 12
• Predecessor
  AMD Ryzen 9 5950X Intel Xeon W-3225

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 12 / 24
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Cores
  16x 12x
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Frequency
  4.50 GHz 3.20 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  5.50 GHz 4.60 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 frequency
  --
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  --
• Shader
  --
• Max. displays
  --
• Generation
  --
• Technology
  --
• Release date
  --

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Xeon w5-3425 and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR5-5200 DDR5-4800
• Max. Memory
  256 GB 4096 GB
• Memory channels
  2 8 (Octa Channel)
• Bandwidth
  83.2 GB/s 307.2 GB/s
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• PCIe
  5.0 x 20 5.0 x 112
• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 9 7950X and Intel Xeon w5-3425 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL2)
  230 W --
• TDP up
  -- 324 W
• Tjunction max.
  95 °C 103 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 9 7950X and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• 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, AMX
• L2-Cache
  8.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  64.00 MB 30.00 MB
• Architecture
  Raphael (Zen 4) Sapphire Rapids-WS
• Documents
  -- Technical data sheet
• Technology
  5 nm 10 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d, VT-rp, vPro Enterprise
• Socket
  AM5 LGA 4677
• Release date
  Q4/2022 Q1/2023