AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2920X vs Intel Xeon Gold 5318Y. 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 3
• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2000 Intel Xeon Gold 5300/6300

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
  3.50 GHz 2.10 GHz
• CPU Cores
  12 24
• Turbo (1 Core)
  4.30 GHz 3.40 GHz
• CPU Threads
  24 48
• Hyperthreading
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  Yes 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
  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.

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Xeon Gold 5318Y and AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2920X. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2933 DDR4-2933
• Max. Memory
  6144 GB
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Memory channels
  4 8
• PCIe version
  3.0 4.0
• PCIe lanes
  64 64

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2920X and Intel Xeon Gold 5318Y to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  180 W 165 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2920X and AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2920X, 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
• L3-Cache
  32.00 MB 36.00 MB
• Architecture
  Colfax (Zen+) Ice Lake
• Technology
  12 nm 10 nm
• Socket
  TR4 (SP3r2) LGA 4189
• Release date
  Q3/2018 Q2/2021