AMD Ryzen 9 5900 vs Intel Xeon Gold 6126

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs Intel Xeon Scalable 12 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

8883 points

4% slightly better overall score

8481 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9577 points

61% significantly better gaming score

5942 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8669 points

9458 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8618 points

10072 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

2.59 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

27% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

92% significantly lower TDP

125 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

24 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB

66% significantly more L3 cache

38.5 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

118th of 1,105

130th of 1,105

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

Xeon Scalable

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 9 5900 vs Xeon Gold 6126 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900 is faster than the Xeon Gold 6126. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Gold 6126 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon Gold 6126. Also, the Ryzen 9 5900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 5900 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Gold 6126 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 6126 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5900. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900 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 5900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.