AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D vs Intel Xeon Gold 6138

Ryzen 7 5800X3D vs Xeon Gold 6138 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon Gold 6138 beats the Ryzen 7 5800X3D in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon Gold 6138 has significantly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Gold 6138. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Gold 6138 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Xeon Gold 6138 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D 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 7 5800X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.