Intel Xeon Gold 6128 vs AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H

Compare Intel Xeon Scalable 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 6000 Series 8 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

6872 points

7135 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6615 points

9019 points

36% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7015 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

6520 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7122 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

6356 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

118.73 points

172.91 points

45% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6063 points

9559 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1178 points

1990 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

3.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

4.9 GHz

32% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

115 W

45 W

155% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

200% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

202nd of 1,089

183rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon Scalable

Ryzen PRO 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon Gold 6128 vs Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H is faster than the Xeon Gold 6128. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Gold 6128 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Xeon Gold 6128 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon Gold 6128. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon Gold 6128 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H outputs less heat than Xeon Gold 6128 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 Xeon Gold 6128 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.