Intel Xeon w5-3425 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Xeon W-3400 AMD Ryzen 7000
• Family
  Intel Xeon W Ryzen
• Generation
  12 6
• Predecessor
  Intel Xeon W-3225 -
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop
• Form Factor
  - Desktops / Boxed Processor
• Series
  - Ryzen 7000 Series

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

• Base Frequency
  3.2 GHz 4.4 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Core Configuration
  12x 12x
• CPU Cores
  12 12
• CPU Threads
  24 24
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  4.6 GHz 5.6 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (12 Cores)
  3.9 GHz 5.4 GHz
• Max. Boost Clock
  - 5.6 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.

• DirectX Version
  - 12
• Execution units
  - 2
• Generation
  - 9
• GPU Frequency
  - 2200 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU AMD Radeon Graphics
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 2200 MHz
• Max. displays
  - 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 8 GB
• Release date
  - Q3/2022
• Shader
  - 128
• Technology
  - 5 nm
• Graphics Cores
  - 2

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D and Intel Xeon w5-3425. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Max. Memory
  4096 GB 128 GB
• Memory Bandwidth
  307.2 GB/s 83.2 GB/s
• Memory channels
  8 (Octa Channel) 2
• Memory type
  DDR5-4800 DDR5
• PCIe
  5.0 x 112 PCIe 5.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon w5-3425 and AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D 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
  103 °C 89 °C
• TDP (PL1 / PBP, legacy combined label)
  270 W -
• TDP (PL2)
  - 230 W
• TDP up
  324 W -
• Default TDP
  - 120 W
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  - 170 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon w5-3425 and AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Sapphire Rapids-WS Raphael (Zen 4)
• Chip design
  Monolithic Chiplet
• Documents
  Technical data sheet -
• 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,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512
• L2-Cache
  - 12 MB
• L3-Cache
  30 MB 128 MB
• Operating systems
  Windows 11, Windows Server, Linux Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
• Release date
  Q1/2023 2023-02-28
• Release price
  1189 $ -
• Socket
  LGA 4677 AM5
• Technology
  10 nm TSMC 5nm FinFET
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d, VT-rp, vPro Enterprise AMD-V, SVM
• Codename
  - Raphael AM5