AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2920X vs Intel Xeon 6960E+
CPU Specs Compare
General Parameters
Release Date
Oct 2018
May 2026
Manufacturer
AMD
Intel
Type
Desktop
Server
Instruction Set
x86-64
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Core Architecture
Zen+
Clearwater Forest
Integrated Graphics
N/A
N/A
Generation
-
Xeon 6+ (Clearwater Forest-SP)
Package
Transistor Count
9.6 billions
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Manufacturing Process
12 nm
3 nm
Socket
sTR4
Intel Socket 7529
Power Consumption
180 W
330 W
Peak Operating Temperature
68 °C
98°C
Foundry
-
Intel
I/O Process Size
-
10 nm
I/O Die Size
-
2x 241
Package
-
FC-LGA18N
CPU Performance
Performance Cores
12
-
Performance Core Threads
24
-
Performance Core Base Frequency
3.5 GHz
2.4 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency
4.3 GHz
3.2 GHz
Total Core Count
12
144
Total Thread Count
24
144
Bus Frequency
100 MHz
100 MHz
Multiplier
35x
24.0
L1 Cache
96 K per core
96 KB per core
L2 Cache
512 K per core
4 MB per module
L3 Cache
32 MB shared
432 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier
Yes
No
SMP
-
2
Memory Parameters
Memory Types
DDR4-2933
DDR5-8000
Max Memory Size
2048 GB
1.5 TB
Max Memory Channels
4
12
Max Memory Bandwidth
87.62 GB/s
768.0 GB/s
ECC Memory Support
Yes
Yes
Miscellaneous
📊 Benchmark
Cinebench R23
1,180
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Cinebench R23
15,269
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Geekbench 6
1,077
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Geekbench 5
1,106
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Geekbench 6
7,251
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Geekbench 5
10,796
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Passmark CPU
2,446
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Passmark CPU
24,659
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