AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition vs Intel Xeon Gold 5317

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AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition CPU1 vs CPU2 Intel Xeon Gold 5317
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition Intel Xeon Gold 5317

CPU comparison

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition or Intel Xeon Gold 5317 - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results.

The AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition has 8 cores with 16 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.60 GHz. Up to 64 GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition was released in Q3/2021.

The Intel Xeon Gold 5317 has 12 cores with 24 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.60 GHz. The CPU supports up to 6144 GB of memory in 8 memory channels. The Intel Xeon Gold 5317 was released in Q2/2021.
AMD Ryzen 9 (35) Family Intel Xeon Gold (163)
AMD Ryzen 5000H (11) CPU group Intel Xeon Gold 5300/6300 (21)
4 Generation 3
Cezanne (Zen 3) Architecture Ice Lake
Mobile Segment Desktop / Server
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition has 8 CPU cores and can calculate 16 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition is 3.30 GHz (4.60 GHz) while the Intel Xeon Gold 5317 has 12 CPU cores and 24 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the Intel Xeon Gold 5317 is at 3.00 GHz (3.60 GHz).

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition Characteristic Intel Xeon Gold 5317
8 Cores 12
16 Threads 24
normal Core architecture normal
Yes Hyperthreading Yes
No Overclocking ? No
3.30 GHz Frequency 3.00 GHz
4.60 GHz Turbo Frequency (1 Core) 3.60 GHz
4.20 GHz Turbo Frequency (All Cores) 3.40 GHz

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition Characteristic Intel Xeon Gold 5317
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

The AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition or Intel Xeon Gold 5317 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir) GPU no iGPU
0.40 GHz GPU frequency --
1.90 GHz GPU (Turbo) --
9 GPU Generation --
7 nm Technology
3 Max. displays
8 Compute units --
512 Shader --
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
8 GB Max. GPU Memory --
12 DirectX Version --

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir) GPU no iGPU
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) No
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) No
Decode / Encode Codec h264 No
Decode / Encode Codec VP9 No
Decode / Encode Codec VP8 No
No Codec AV1 No
Decode / Encode Codec AVC No
Decode Codec VC-1 No
Decode / Encode Codec JPEG No

Memory & PCIe

The AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition can use up to 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 51.2 GB/s. The Intel Xeon Gold 5317 supports up to 6144 GB of memory in 8 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 187.6 GB/s.

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition Characteristic Intel Xeon Gold 5317
LPDDR4-4266, DDR4-3200 Memory DDR4-2933
64 GB Max. Memory 6144 GB
2 (Dual Channel) Memory channels 8 (Octa Channel)
51.2 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 187.6 GB/s
No ECC Yes
4.00 MB L2 Cache --
16.00 MB L3 Cache 18.00 MB
3.0 PCIe version 4.0
12 PCIe lanes 64
11.8 GB/s PCIe Bandwidth 126.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition is 45 W, while the Intel Xeon Gold 5317 has a TDP of 150 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition Characteristic Intel Xeon Gold 5317
45 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 150 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
54 W TDP up --
35 W TDP down --
105 °C Tjunction max. --

Technical details

The AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition is manufactured in 7 nm and has 20.00 MB cache. The Intel Xeon Gold 5317 is manufactured in 10 nm and has a 18.00 MB cache.

AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition Characteristic Intel Xeon Gold 5317
7 nm Technology 10 nm
Chiplet Chip design Monolithic
x86-64 (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 ISA extensions SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
FP6 Socket LGA 4189
AMD-V, SVM Virtualization VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
Yes AES-NI Yes
Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux Operating systems Windows 10, Linux
Q3/2021 Release date Q2/2021
-- Release price 950 $
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition (100%)
Intel Xeon Gold 5317 (85%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition (71%)
Intel Xeon Gold 5317 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition
8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz
1488 (100%)
Intel Xeon Gold 5317 Intel Xeon Gold 5317
12C 24T @ 3.60 GHz
1268 (85%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition
8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz
7854 (60%)
Intel Xeon Gold 5317 Intel Xeon Gold 5317
12C 24T @ 3.40 GHz
13054 (100%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition
8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz
22105 (81%)
Intel Xeon Gold 5317 Intel Xeon Gold 5317
12C 24T @ 3.40 GHz
27414 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition
8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz
1478 (100%)
Intel Xeon Gold 5317 Intel Xeon Gold 5317
12C 24T @ 3.60 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition
8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz
13875 (100%)
Intel Xeon Gold 5317 Intel Xeon Gold 5317
12C 24T @ 3.40 GHz
0 (0%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition
8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz
1992 (100%)
Intel Xeon Gold 5317 Intel Xeon Gold 5317
12C 24T @ 3.60 GHz
0 (0%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition
8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz
7040 (100%)
Intel Xeon Gold 5317 Intel Xeon Gold 5317
12C 24T @ 3.40 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition
8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz
578 (100%)
Intel Xeon Gold 5317 Intel Xeon Gold 5317
12C 24T @ 3.60 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition
8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz
5474 (100%)
Intel Xeon Gold 5317 Intel Xeon Gold 5317
12C 24T @ 3.40 GHz
0 (0%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition
AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir) @ 1.90 GHz
1946 (100%)
Intel Xeon Gold 5317 Intel Xeon Gold 5317
@ 0.00 GHz
0 (0%)

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition
8C 16T @ 4.20 GHz
174 (100%)
Intel Xeon Gold 5317 Intel Xeon Gold 5317
12C 24T @ 3.40 GHz
0 (0%)

Devices using this processor

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