Comparison of AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 3900 and Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3

Attribute	AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 3900 ×	Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3 ×
General Information
Brand	AMD	Intel
Series	AMD Ryzen	Intel Xeon E5
Model	AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 3900	Intel Xeon E5-2660 v3
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	12	10
Frequency (GHz)	3.1	2.6
CPU Threads	24	20
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	+	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	4.3	3.3
Turbo (10 Cores) (GHz)	-	3
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	DDR4-3200	DDR4-2133
Max. Memory (GB)	128	-
PCIe lanes	20	40
PCIe version	4.0	3.0
ECC	-	+
Memory channels	2	4
Technical details
Release date (year)	2019	2014
Technology (Nm)	7	22
Socket	AM4	LGA 2011-3
Virtualization	amd-v amd-vi sev	vpro vt-d vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	64	25
Architecture	Zen 2	Haswell E
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
Temp junction max (°C)	95	-
TDP (PL1) (W)	65	105
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	31,777	16,429
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1,194	734
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	10,974	6,121
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	-	127
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	-	1,593
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	-	1.58
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	-	16.25
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	6,926	3,429
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	77,236	33,900