AMD Ryzen 9 3950X vs Intel Xeon Platinum 8260

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Physical Specifications

Socket AMD Socket AM4 Intel Socket 3647
Foundry TSMC Intel
Process size 7 nm 14 nm
Transistors 3,800 million 8,000 million
Die size 74 mm² unknown
Package µOPGA-1331 FC-LGA3647
tCaseMax 95°C

Performance

Frequency 3.5 GHz 2.4 GHz
Turbo clock up to 4.7 GHz up to 3.9 GHz
Base clock 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 35.0x 24.0x
Multiplier unlocked Yes No
TDP 105 W 165 W
FP32 3,609.6 GFLOPS

Architecture Details

Vertical Segment Desktop Server/Workstation
Production status Active unknown
Release date Nov 14th, 2019 Dec 11th, 2018
Codename Matisse Cascade Lake-SP
Generation Ryzen 9 Xeon Platinum
Part 100-000000051 SRF9HCD8069504201101
Memory support DDR4-3200 MHz Dual-channel DDR4
ECC memory No Yes
PCI Express Gen 4

Cores

Total Cores 16 24
Total Threads 32 48
SMP # CPUs 1 8
Integrated graphics

Cache

Cache L1 64K (per core) 64K (per core)
Cache L2 512K (per core) 1MB (per core)
Cache L3 64MB 35.75MB (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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