AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 3900 vs Intel Xeon Gold 6338. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 3000 Intel Xeon Gold 5300/6300
• Family
  Ryzen PRO Intel Xeon Gold
• Form Factor
  Desktops -
• Generation
  3 3
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Series
  Ryzen PRO 3000 Series -

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

• Base Frequency
  3.1 GHz 2 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  12 32
• CPU Threads
  24 64
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Max. Boost Clock
  4.3 GHz -
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  4.3 GHz 3.2 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (12 Cores)
  No turbo -
• Turbo Frequency (32 Cores)
  - 2.8 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 6338 and AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 3900. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No Yes
• Max. Memory
  128 GB 6144 GB
• Memory channels
  2 8
• Memory type
  DDR4 DDR4-3200
• PCIe
  PCIe 4.0 -
• PCIe lanes
  20 64
• PCIe version
  4.0 4.0
• System Memory Specification
  3200 -

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 3900 and Intel Xeon Gold 6338 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 205 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 3900 and Intel Xeon Gold 6338, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Matisse (Zen 2) Ice Lake
• Codename
  Matisse -
• 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
• L1-Cache
  0.75 MB -
• L2-Cache
  6 MB -
• L3-Cache
  64 MB 48 MB
• Manufacturer product ID (tray)
  100-000000072 -
• Operating systems
  Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition / RHEL x86 64-Bit / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit -
• Release date
  2019-09-30 Q2/2021
• Socket
  AM4 LGA 4189
• Technology
  TSMC 7nm FinFET 10 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d