AMD Ryzen 9 8945H vs Intel Xeon Gold 6230

Compare AMD 8 core CPU vs Intel 2nd Generation Xeon Scalable 20 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

8895 points

9125 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10846 points

88% significantly better gaming score

5766 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8278 points

10388 points

25% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8127 points

11200 points

37% slightly better heavy workload score

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

150% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.00 GHz

90% significantly higher clock speed

2.10 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

20 MiB

150% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

27.5 MiB

71% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

120th of 1,114

114th of 1,114

Family

The product line

2nd Generation Xeon Scalable

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 9 8945H vs Xeon Gold 6230 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon Gold 6230 performs better than the Ryzen 9 8945H. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8945H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon Gold 6230 has significantly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 8945H has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 8945H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 8945H has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon Gold 6230. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6230 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 8945H. The Xeon Gold 6230 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 8945H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.