Intel Xeon Gold 6354 vs AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3955WX. Specifications

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

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

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

• Base Frequency
  3 GHz 3.9 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  18 16
• CPU Threads
  36 32
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.6 GHz 4.3 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (18 Cores)
  3.4 GHz -
• Max. Boost Clock
  - 4.3 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (16 Cores)
  - 4 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 -

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 Threadripper Pro 3955WX and Intel Xeon Gold 6354. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Max. Memory
  6144 GB 2048 GB
• Memory channels
  8 8
• Memory type
  DDR4-2933 DDR4
• PCIe lanes
  64 72
• PCIe version
  4.0 4.0
• PCIe
  - PCIe 4.0
• System Memory Specification
  - 3200

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon Gold 6354 and AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3955WX 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
  - 90 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  205 W 280 W
• Default TDP
  - 280 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon Gold 6354 and AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3955WX, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Ice Lake Castle Peak (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
• L2-Cache
  - 8 MB
• L3-Cache
  39 MB 64 MB
• Release date
  Q2/2021 2020-07-14
• Socket
  LGA 4189 sWRX8
• Technology
  10 nm TSMC 7nm FinFET
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM
• Codename
  - Castle Peak
• L1-Cache
  - 1 MB
• Manufacturer product ID (boxed)
  - 100-100000167WOF
• Manufacturer product ID (tray)
  - 100-000000167
• Operating systems
  - Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition / Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition