Intel Xeon Gold 6342 vs AMD Ryzen 5 3600X. Specifications

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

• CPU group
  Intel Xeon Gold 5300/6300 AMD Ryzen 3000
• Family
  Intel Xeon Gold AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  3 3
• Predecessor
  - AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Successor
  - AMD Ryzen 5 5600X

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

• Base Frequency
  2.8 GHz 3.8 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  24 6
• CPU Threads
  48 12
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.5 GHz 4.4 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (24 Cores)
  3.2 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
  - 4.2 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 None
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo -
• Graphics verification source
  - https://www.amd.com/en/products/specifications/processors.html

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 5 3600X and Intel Xeon Gold 6342. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Max. Memory
  6144 GB 128 GB
• Memory channels
  8 2
• Memory type
  DDR4-3200 DDR4-3200
• PCIe lanes
  64 20
• PCIe version
  4.0 4.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon Gold 6342 and AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 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)
  230 W 95 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon Gold 6342 and AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Ice Lake Matisse (Zen 2)
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L3-Cache
  36.00 MB 32.00 MB
• Release date
  Q2/2021 Q3/2019
• Socket
  LGA 4189 AM4
• Technology
  10 nm 7 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM