Intel Xeon Gold 6254 vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Compare Intel 2nd Generation Xeon Scalable 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Price

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$ 1568.00

$ 301.56

$ 1266.44 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10336 points

11120 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7901 points

13778 points

74% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11185 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

10239 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11474 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

9995 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

312.88 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

302.05 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11007 points

16965 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1387 points

3349 points

141% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.09 GHz

3.8 GHz

22% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

5.5 GHz

37% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

200 W

65 W

207% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

200% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

79th of 1,089

67th of 1,089

Family

The product line

2nd Generation Xeon Scalable

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May

2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon Gold 6254 vs Ryzen 7 9700X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 9700X beats the Xeon Gold 6254 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Gold 6254 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon Gold 6254 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 9700X has 8 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9700X has more threads than the Xeon Gold 6254. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Gold 6254. Also, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 9700X outputs less heat than Xeon Gold 6254 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. For instance, the Xeon Gold 6254 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.