Intel Xeon 6960E+ vs AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 8945HS
CPU · Specs Compare
General Parameters
Release Date
May 2026
Apr 2024
Manufacturer
Intel
AMD
Type
Server
Laptop
Core Architecture
Clearwater Forest
Hawk Point
Integrated Graphics
N/A
Radeon 780M
Generation
Xeon 6+ (Clearwater Forest-SP)
Ryzen 9 (Zen 4 (Hawk Point))
Package
Manufacturing Process
3 nm
4 nm
Socket
Intel Socket 7529
AMD Socket FP7
Power Consumption
330 W
35-54 W
Peak Operating Temperature
98°C
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Foundry
Intel
TSMC
I/O Process Size
10 nm
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I/O Die Size
2x 241
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Package
FC-LGA18N
FP7, FP7r2
Transistor Count
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25 billions
Die Size
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178 mm²
CPU Performance
Performance Core Base Frequency
2.4 GHz
4 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency
3.2 GHz
5.2 GHz
Total Core Count
144
8
Total Thread Count
144
16
Bus Frequency
100 MHz
100 MHz
Multiplier
24.0
40.0
L1 Cache
96 KB per core
64 KB per core
L2 Cache
4 MB per module
8 MB
L3 Cache
432 MB shared
16 MB
Unlocked Multiplier
No
No
SMP
2
1
Performance Cores
—
8
Performance Core Threads
—
16
Memory Parameters
Memory Types
DDR5-8000
DDR5-5600,LPDDR5X-7500
Max Memory Size
1.5 TB
256 GB
Max Memory Channels
12
2
Max Memory Bandwidth
768.0 GB/s
120 GB/s
ECC Memory Support
Yes
Yes
Miscellaneous
PCIe Version
5
4
PCIe Lanes
96
20
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics
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true
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency
—
2800 MHz
Execution Units
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12
AI Accelerator
NPU
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AMD Ryzen™ AI
Theoretical performance
—
16 TOPS
Benchmark
Cinebench R23
—
1,805
Cinebench R23
—
17,376
Geekbench 6
—
1,866
Geekbench 6
—
7,242
Cinebench 2024
—
106
Cinebench 2024
—
988
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.