AMD Ryzen 5 8600G vs Intel Xeon Gold 6138

Ryzen 5 8600G vs Xeon Gold 6138 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon Gold 6138 beats the Ryzen 5 8600G in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8600G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon Gold 6138 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 8600G. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6138 has 20 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 8600G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8600G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 8600G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon Gold 6138. Also, the Ryzen 5 8600G has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 8600G CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Gold 6138 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6138 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 8600G. The Xeon Gold 6138 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.