Comparison of AMD Ryzen 9 3950X and Intel Xeon W-3175X

Attribute	AMD Ryzen 9 3950X ×	Intel Xeon W-3175X ×
General Information
Brand	AMD	Intel
Series	AMD Ryzen	Intel Xeon W
Model	AMD Ryzen 9 3950X	Intel Xeon W-3175X
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	16	28
Frequency (GHz)	3.5	3.1
CPU Threads	32	56
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	+	+
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	4.7	3.8
Turbo (16 Cores) (GHz)	4	-
Turbo (28 Cores) (GHz)	-	3.8
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	-	DDR4-2666
Max. Memory (GB)	128	512
PCIe lanes	20	48
PCIe version	4.0	3.0
ECC	+	+
Memory channels	2	6
Technical details
Release date (year)	2019	2018
Technology (Nm)	7	14
Socket	AM4	LGA 3647
Virtualization	amd-v sev	vpro vt-d vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	64	38
Architecture	Zen 2	Skylake SP
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
Temp junction max (°C)	95	85
TDP (PL2) (W)	142	-
TDP (PL1) (W)	105	255
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	34,024	34,215
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1,310	1,153
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	14,322	23,465
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	217	188
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	3,897	5,514
Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)	531	417
Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)	9,148	12,975
Blender 2.81 (bmw27)	85.4	-
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)	1,371	1,112
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)	24,050	31,350