AMD Ryzen 9 3950X vs Intel Xeon Gold 6126

Ryzen 9 3950X vs Xeon Gold 6126 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 3950X beats the Xeon Gold 6126 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Gold 6126 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 3950X has slightly more cores than the Xeon Gold 6126. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3950X has 16 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Xeon Gold 6126. It also has more threads than the Xeon Gold 6126. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3950X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Gold 6126. Also, the Ryzen 9 3950X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 3950X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Gold 6126 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 6126 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 3950X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 3950X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Xeon Gold 6126.

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 9 3950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.