AMD Ryzen 9 3950X vs Intel Xeon E7-8880 v3

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Physical Specifications

Socket AMD Socket AM4 Intel Socket 2011-3
Foundry TSMC Intel
Process size 7 nm 22 nm
Transistors 3,800 million 1,400 million
Die size 74 mm² 160 mm²
Package µOPGA-1331 FC-LGA12C
tCaseMax 95°C 77°C

Performance

Frequency 3.5 GHz 2.3 GHz
Turbo clock up to 4.7 GHz up to 3.1 GHz
Base clock 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 35.0x 23.0x
Multiplier unlocked Yes No
TDP 105 W 150 W
FP32 3,609.6 GFLOPS

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Desktop Server/Workstation
Production status Active Active
Release date Nov 14th, 2019 Jun 1st, 2015
Codename Matisse Haswell-EX
Generation Ryzen 9 Xeon E7
Part 100-000000051 SR21X
Memory support DDR4-3200 MHz Dual-channel DDR3, DDR41866 MHz Dual-channel
ECC memory No Yes
PCI Express Gen 4 Gen 3, 32 Lanes(CPU only)

Cores

Total Cores 16 18
Total Threads 32 36
SMP # CPUs 1 8
Integrated graphics

Cache

Cache L1 64K (per core) 64K (per core)
Cache L2 512K (per core) 256K (per core)
Cache L3 64MB 45MB (shared)

Notes

Notes This processor comes with an unlocked base clock multiplier, allowing users to set the multiplier value higher than shipped value, to facilitate better overclocking.

Features & Technologies

AES Yes
AES-NI Yes
AMD-V Yes
AMD64 Yes
AVX Yes Yes
AVX2 Yes Yes
BMI1 Yes Yes
BMI2 Yes Yes
ECC Yes
EIST Yes
EVP Yes
F16C Yes Yes
FMA3 Yes Yes
HTT Yes
Intel 64 Yes
MMX Yes Yes
Precision Boost 2 Yes
SHA Yes
SMAP Yes
SMEP Yes
SMT Yes
SSE Yes Yes
SSE2 Yes Yes
SSE3 Yes Yes
SSE4.1 Yes
SSE4.2 Yes Yes
SSE4A Yes
SSSE3 Yes Yes
TXT Yes
VT-d Yes
VT-x Yes
XD bit Yes
XFR 2 Yes
vPro Yes
x8 SDDC Yes

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