Intel newly launched its latest Xeon W-3300 Workstation CPUs which the team blue advertised as being its latest power player in the data center market. However, as we have already heard that, the CPU was severely destroyed by Intel’s rival AMD’s Threadripper Pro lineup.
Recently, Puget Systems, a Solutions provider posted a review online which shows, Intel’s flagship Xeon W-3300 CPU getting decimated by AMD’s Threadripper Pro with fewer cores.
The interesting fact here is that all Intel’s high-end Xeon W-3300 lineup was competing against a single AMD Threadripper Pro part. However, it was soon discovered that even with having a massive 18% IPC uplift over its previous generation, AMD’s Threadripper Pro lineup has a huge advantage over Intel’s latest data center entry.
While there are several instances where the new Intel Xeon W-3300 processors either match or beat the AMD Threadripper Pro CPUs, they often required us to set Windows to use the “High Performance” power profile. And even then, AMD by and large came out on top in our testing.
The benchmark published by Puget Systems shows that AMD’s Threadripper 3975WX 32 Core CPU offers better performance than Intel’s Xeon W-3375 38 Core CPU in several of the tested benchmarks.
As a matter of fact, after looking at the benchmarks even AMD’s 16 core Threadripper Pro 3955WX comes out as an incredible competition against Intel’s 32 core and 24 core Xeon W-3300 models.
Intel Xeon W-3300 vs AMD Threadripper Pro
| CPU Name | Xeon W-3375 | Xeon W-3365 | Xeon W-3345 | Threadripper Pro 3995WX | Threadripper Pro 3975WX |
| Architecture | 10nm | 10nm | 10nm | 7nm | 7nm |
| Cores / Threads | 38/76 | 32/64 | 24/48 | 64/128 | 32/64 |
| Max Clocks | 4.0 GHz | 4.0 GHz | 4.0 GHz | 4.2 GHz | 4.2 GHz |
| Max Cache | 57 MB | 48 MB | 36 MB | 256 MB | 128 MB |
| Max Gen 4 Lanes | 64 Gen 4 | 64 Gen 4 | 64 Gen 4 | 128 Gen 4 | 128 Gen 4 |
| Max TDP | 270W | 270W | 250W | 280W | 280W |
| Pricing | $4499 US | $3499 US | $2499 US | $5489 US | $2749 US |
In the testing results, Puget System posted that the only category in which Intel beat AMD was in the compute performance benchmark (HPL Linpack). However, it was mostly due to the benchmark favoring Intel’s CPUs & OneAPI software suite. So, the test was favoring Intel rather than AMD.
