AMD Ryzen 7 5800 vs Intel Xeon Gold 6138

Ryzen 7 5800 vs Xeon Gold 6138 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon Gold 6138 beats the Ryzen 7 5800 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800 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 7 5800 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Gold 6138. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800 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 info from our database shows that the Xeon Gold 6138 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5800. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Xeon Gold 6138.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.