AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D vs Intel Xeon Platinum 8170M

Ryzen 9 7900X3D vs Xeon Platinum 8170M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D beats the Xeon Platinum 8170M in overall performance. 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 7900X3D. Indeed, the Xeon Platinum 8170M has 26 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Ryzen 9 7900X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7900X3D. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Platinum 8170M. The info from our database shows that the Xeon Platinum 8170M has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7900X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Xeon Platinum 8170M.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.