Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2 vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900. Specifications

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

• CPU group
  Intel Xeon E5 v2 AMD Ryzen 5000
• Family
  Intel Xeon E5 AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  4 4
• Predecessor
  - AMD Ryzen 9 3900
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server

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

• Base Frequency
  2.1 GHz 3.5 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  6 12
• CPU Threads
  12 24
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  2.6 GHz 4.7 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
  2.3 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (12 Cores)
  - 4.3 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
  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.

• 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 AMD Ryzen 9 5900 and Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Max. Memory
  - 128 GB
• Memory channels
  4 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 DDR4-3200
• PCIe lanes
  40 20
• PCIe version
  3.0 4.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2 and AMD Ryzen 9 5900 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

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

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon E5-2620 v2 and AMD Ryzen 9 5900, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Ivy Bridge EP Vermeer (Zen 3)
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  - 6 MB
• L3-Cache
  15 MB 64 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2013 Q2/2021
• Socket
  LGA 2011 AM4
• Technology
  22 nm 7 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM