AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D vs Intel Xeon w9-3495X

Ryzen 9 9950X3D vs Xeon w9-3495X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D beats the Xeon w9-3495X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon w9-3495X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon w9-3495X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. Indeed, the Xeon w9-3495X has 56 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon w9-3495X. Also, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Xeon w9-3495X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Xeon w9-3495X.

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 9950X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.