AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Intel Xeon Platinum 8170M

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Xeon Platinum 8170M comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 5900X performs better than the Xeon Platinum 8170M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Platinum 8170M in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon Platinum 8170M has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 5900X. Indeed, the Xeon Platinum 8170M has 26 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Ryzen 9 5900X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5900X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Platinum 8170M. In terms of cache, the Xeon Platinum 8170M has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 5900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Xeon Platinum 8170M.

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 9 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.