Intel Granite Rapids WS vs. AMD Threadripper Zen 5 SMT Performance
As a follow-up to the article earlier this month of the Intel Xeon 600 workstation performance against AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series in over 400 benchmarks -- including when carried out at the same core count and memory configuration -- today's article is exploring the Hyper Threading / SMT impact on both the Intel Redwood Cove and AMD Zen 5 cores for workstations.
Intel Granite Rapids WS and AMD Threadripper Zen 5 processors were benchmarked in terms of Hyper-Threading/SMT performance in a recent article. The Xeon 678X with 48 cores/96 threads was compared to the Ryzen Threadripper 9980X with 64 cores/128 threads. The AMD processor was tested both with SMT on and off, as well as with 48 cores enabled from BIOS to match the Xeon's core/thread count. The comparison also included power consumption and thermals, using Fedora Workstation 44, Linux 7.1 kernel, and GCC 16.2 compiler.
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