Xeon Gold 6538Y vs Ryzen 5 3550H

Primary details

Comparing Ryzen 5 3550H and Xeon Gold 6538Y processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking1234not rated
Place by popularity80not in top-100
Market segmentLaptopServer
SeriesAMD Ryzen 5no data
Power efficiency13.22no data
Architecture codenamePicasso-U (Zen+) (2019−2020)no data
Release date6 January 2019 (5 years ago)1 October 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

Ryzen 5 3550H and Xeon Gold 6538Y basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores4 (Quad-Core)32 (Dotriaconta-Core)
Threads864
Base clock speed2.1 GHz2.2 GHz
Boost clock speed3.7 GHz4 GHz
Bus typePCIe 3.0no data
Multiplier21no data
L1 cache128K (per core)no data
L2 cache512K (per core)no data
L3 cache4 MB (shared)60 MB
Chip lithography12 nmIntel 7 nm
Die size209.78 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature105 °C79 °C
Number of transistors4940 Millionno data
64 bit support+-
Windows 11 compatibility+no data

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 5 3550H and Xeon Gold 6538Y compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1 (Uniprocessor)no data
SocketFP5FCLGA4677
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt225 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 3550H and Xeon Gold 6538Y. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A, AES, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, SHAIntel® AMX, Intel® SSE4.2, Intel® AVX, Intel® AVX2, Intel® AVX-512
AES-NI++
AVX+-
Speed Shiftno data+
Turbo Boost Technologyno data2.0
Hyper-Threading Technologyno data+
TSX-+
Deep Learning Boost-+

Security technologies

Ryzen 5 3550H and Xeon Gold 6538Y technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXTno data+
EDBno data+
SGXno dataYes with Intel® SPS
OS Guardno data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 5 3550H and Xeon Gold 6538Y are enumerated here.

AMD-V+-
VT-dno data+
VT-xno data+
EPTno data+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 3550H and Xeon Gold 6538Y. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4DDR5-5200
Maximum memory size64 GB4 TB
Max memory channels28
Maximum memory bandwidth38.4 GB/sno data
ECC memory support++

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardAMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 2000/3000)no data

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 5 3550H and Xeon Gold 6538Y.

PCIe version3.05.0
PCI Express lanes1280

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 January 2019 1 October 2023
Physical cores 4 32
Threads 8 64
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 225 Watt

Ryzen 5 3550H has 542.9% lower power consumption.

Xeon Gold 6538Y, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, and 700% more physical cores and 700% more threads.

We couldn't decide between Ryzen 5 3550H and Xeon Gold 6538Y. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Ryzen 5 3550H is a notebook processor while Xeon Gold 6538Y is a server/workstation one.


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