Intel Xeon 6990E+ vs AMD Ryzen 7 8700F
CPU · Specs Compare
General Parameters
Release Date
May 2026
May 2024
Manufacturer
Intel
Amd
Type
Server
Desktop
Core Architecture
Clearwater Forest
Zen 4 (Phoenix)
Integrated Graphics
N/A
No
Generation
Xeon 6+ (Clearwater Forest-SP)
Ryzen 7 (Zen 4 (Phoenix))
Instruction Set
—
x86-64
Package
Manufacturing Process
3 nm
4 nm
Socket
Intel Socket 7529
AM5
Power Consumption
450 W
45-65 W
Peak Operating Temperature
98°C
95 °C
Foundry
Intel
TSMC
I/O Process Size
10 nm
—
I/O Die Size
2x 241
—
Package
FC-LGA18N
FC-LGA1718
Transistor Count
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25 billions
Die Size
—
178 mm²
CPU Performance
Performance Core Base Frequency
2.2 GHz
4.1 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency
3.2 GHz
5 GHz
Total Core Count
288
8
Total Thread Count
288
16
Bus Frequency
100 MHz
100 MHz
Multiplier
22.0
41
L1 Cache
96 KB per core
64 K per core
L2 Cache
4 MB per module
1 MB per core
L3 Cache
576 MB shared
16 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier
No
Yes
SMP
2
1
Performance Cores
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8
Performance Core Threads
—
16
Memory Parameters
Memory Types
DDR5-8000
DDR5-5200
Max Memory Size
1.5 TB
256 GB
Max Memory Channels
12
2
Max Memory Bandwidth
768.0 GB/s
83.2 GB/s
ECC Memory Support
Yes
No
Miscellaneous
PCIe Version
5
4.0
PCIe Lanes
96
20
AI Accelerator
NPU
—
AMD Ryzen™ AI
Theoretical performance
—
16 TOPS
Benchmark
Cinebench R23
—
1,788
Cinebench R23
—
17,614
Geekbench 6
—
2,745
Geekbench 6
—
14,317
Cinebench 2024
—
104
Cinebench 2024
—
986
Blender
—
241
Passmark CPU
—
3,904
Passmark CPU
—
31,075
▲ Specs Compare
Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.