AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X vs Intel Xeon Gold 6138

Ryzen Threadripper 1950X vs Xeon Gold 6138 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X is faster than the Xeon Gold 6138. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Gold 6138 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon Gold 6138 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6138 has 20 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Gold 6138. Also, the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon Gold 6138 outputs less heat than Ryzen Threadripper 1950X thanks to a 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 6138 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X. Despite this, the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Xeon Gold 6138.

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 Threadripper 1950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.