AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs Intel Xeon Gold 6154

Ryzen 9 5950X vs Xeon Gold 6154 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon Gold 6154 beats the Ryzen 9 5950X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5950X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon Gold 6154 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 9 5950X. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6154 has 18 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Ryzen 9 5950X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5950X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5950X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon Gold 6154. Also, the Ryzen 9 5950X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 5950X CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Gold 6154 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6154 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5950X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5950X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Xeon Gold 6154.

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 5950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.