AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D vs Intel Xeon Gold 6138

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon Scalable 20 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7478 points

7502 points

0.32% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10030 points

54% significantly better gaming score

6488 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6652 points

7892 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6441 points

8110 points

25% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

199.09 points

268.08 points

34% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

233% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

233% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.00 GHz

100% significantly higher clock speed

2.00 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

20 MiB

233% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

96 MiB

249% significantly more L3 cache

27.5 MiB

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Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

176th of 1,114

175th of 1,114

Family

The product line

Xeon Scalable

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 7500X3D vs Xeon Gold 6138 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon Gold 6138 is faster than the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7500X3D has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon Gold 6138 has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7500X3D that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7500X3D has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon Gold 6138. The info from our database shows that the Xeon Gold 6138 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7500X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Xeon Gold 6138.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7500X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.