Comparison of AMD Ryzen 9 3900 and Intel Xeon E5-2697 v4

Attribute	Intel Xeon E5-2697 v4 ×	AMD Ryzen 9 3900 ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	AMD
Series	Intel Xeon E5	AMD Ryzen
Model	Intel Xeon E5-2697 v4	AMD Ryzen 9 3900
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	18	12
Frequency (GHz)	2.3	3.1
CPU Threads	36	24
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	-	+
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	3.6	4.3
Turbo (18 Cores) (GHz)	2.8	-
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	No	No
h264	No	No
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	No
VP8	No	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	No	No
VP9	No	No
AVC	No	No
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	DDR4-2400	DDR4-3200
Max. Memory (GB)	-	128
PCIe lanes	40	20
PCIe version	3.0	4.0
ECC	+	-
Memory channels	4	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2016	2019
Technology (Nm)	14	7
Socket	LGA 2011-3	AM4
Virtualization	vpro vt-d vt-x vt-x ept	amd-v amd-vi sev
L3-Cache (MB)	45	64
Architecture	Broadwell EP	Zen 2
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
Temp junction max (°C)	-	95
TDP (PL1) (W)	145	65
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	21,435	30,924
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	737	1,194
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	8,903	10,974
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	150	-
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	2,658	-
Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)	257	-
Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)	5,697	-
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.83	-
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	32.74	-
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	4,231	6,918
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	66,654	77,286