Intel Xeon w3-2425 vs AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5955WX. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Intel Xeon W AMD Ryzen
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon W-2400 AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 5000
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Generation
  12 4
• Predecessor
  Intel Xeon W-2225 AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3955WX

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.

• CPU Cores / Threads
  6 / 12 16 / 32
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Overclocking
  No No
• Frequency
  3.00 GHz 4.00 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.

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5955WX and Intel Xeon w3-2425. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR5-4400 DDR4-3200
• Max. Memory
  2048 GB 2048 GB
• Memory channels
  4 (Quad Channel) 8
• ECC
  Yes Yes
• PCIe
  5.0 x 64 4.0 x 128
• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon w3-2425 and AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 5955WX to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP up
  156 W --
• Tjunction max.
  83 °C 100 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon w3-2425 and Intel Xeon w3-2425, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Technology
  10 nm 7 nm
• Socket
  LGA 4677 WRX8 (sWRX8)
• L2-Cache
  -- 8.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  15.00 MB 64.00 MB
• Architecture
  Sapphire Rapids-WS Chagall (Zen 3)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d, VT-rp, vPro Enterprise AMD-V, SVM
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512, AMX SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• Release date
  Q1/2023 Q1/2022