Intel Xeon Gold 5320H vs Qualcomm Snapdragon 653

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Intel Xeon Gold 5320H CPU1 vs CPU2 Qualcomm Snapdragon 653
Intel Xeon Gold 5320H Qualcomm Snapdragon 653

CPU comparison

Intel Xeon Gold 5320H or Qualcomm Snapdragon 653 - 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 Intel Xeon Gold 5320H has 20 cores with 40 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.20 GHz. Up to 1146 GB of memory is supported in 6 memory channels. The Intel Xeon Gold 5320H was released in Q2/2020.

The Qualcomm Snapdragon 653 has 8 cores with 8 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 1.95 GHz. The CPU supports up to 8 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 653 was released in Q4/2016.
Intel Xeon Gold (163) Family Qualcomm Snapdragon (104)
Intel Xeon Gold 5300/6300 (6) CPU group Qualcomm Snapdragon 650 (3)
3 Generation 4
Cooper Lake Architecture Cortex-A72 / Cortex-A53
Desktop / Server Segment Mobile
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Xeon Gold 5320H has 20 CPU cores and can calculate 40 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Xeon Gold 5320H is 2.40 GHz (4.20 GHz) while the Qualcomm Snapdragon 653 has 8 CPU cores and 8 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 653 is at 1.95 GHz.

Intel Xeon Gold 5320H Characteristic Qualcomm Snapdragon 653
20 Cores 8
40 Threads 8
normal Core architecture hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Yes Hyperthreading No
No Overclocking ? No
2.40 GHz (4.20 GHz) A-Core 1.95 GHz
4x Cortex-A72
-- B-Core 1.44 GHz
4x Cortex-A53

NPU AI performance

The performance values of the processor's AI unit. The isolated NPU performance is specified here, the total AI performance (NPU+CPU+iGPU) can be higher. Processors with support for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors.

Intel Xeon Gold 5320H Characteristic Qualcomm Snapdragon 653
-- AI hardware Qualcomm AI engine
-- AI specifications Hexagon
-- NPU + CPU + iGPU --

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

The Intel Xeon Gold 5320H or Qualcomm Snapdragon 653 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.

no iGPU GPU Qualcomm Adreno 510
GPU frequency 0.60 GHz
-- GPU (Turbo) 0.60 GHz
-- GPU Generation 5
Technology 14 nm
Max. displays 0
-- Compute units --
-- Shader 128
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
-- Max. GPU Memory --
-- DirectX Version 11

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.

no iGPU GPU Qualcomm Adreno 510
No Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode
No Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) No
No Codec h264 Decode
No Codec VP9 Decode
No Codec VP8 Decode
No Codec AV1 No
No Codec AVC No
No Codec VC-1 Decode
No Codec JPEG Decode

Memory & PCIe

The Intel Xeon Gold 5320H can use up to 1146 GB of memory in 6 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 128.1 GB/s. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 653 supports up to 8 GB of memory in 2 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 14.9 GB/s.

Intel Xeon Gold 5320H Characteristic Qualcomm Snapdragon 653
DDR4-2666 Memory LPDDR3-1866
1146 GB Max. Memory 8 GB
6 (Hexa Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
128.1 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 14.9 GB/s
Yes ECC No
-- L2 Cache --
27.50 MB L3 Cache --
3.0 PCIe version --
48 PCIe lanes --
47.3 GB/s PCIe Bandwidth --

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the Intel Xeon Gold 5320H is 150 W, while the Qualcomm Snapdragon 653 has a TDP of --. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

Intel Xeon Gold 5320H Characteristic Qualcomm Snapdragon 653
150 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) --
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up --
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. --

Technical details

The Intel Xeon Gold 5320H is manufactured in 14 nm and has 27.50 MB cache. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 653 is manufactured in 28 nm and has a 0.00 MB cache.

Intel Xeon Gold 5320H Characteristic Qualcomm Snapdragon 653
14 nm Technology 28 nm
Monolithic Chip design Chiplet
x86-64 (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) Armv8-A (64 bit)
SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 ISA extensions --
P+ Socket --
VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d Virtualization None
Yes AES-NI No
Windows 10, Linux Operating systems Android
Q2/2020 Release date Q4/2016
-- Release price --
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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.
Intel Xeon Gold 5320H Intel Xeon Gold 5320H
20C 40T @ 4.20 GHz
0 (0%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 653 Qualcomm Snapdragon 653
8C 8T @ 1.95 GHz
287 (100%)

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.
Intel Xeon Gold 5320H Intel Xeon Gold 5320H
20C 40T @ 2.60 GHz
0 (0%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 653 Qualcomm Snapdragon 653
8C 8T @ 1.95 GHz
1026 (100%)

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.
Intel Xeon Gold 5320H Intel Xeon Gold 5320H
20C 40T @ 4.20 GHz
0 (0%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 653 Qualcomm Snapdragon 653
8C 8T @ 1.95 GHz
279 (100%)

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.
Intel Xeon Gold 5320H Intel Xeon Gold 5320H
20C 40T @ 2.60 GHz
0 (0%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 653 Qualcomm Snapdragon 653
8C 8T @ 1.95 GHz
866 (100%)

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.
Intel Xeon Gold 5320H Intel Xeon Gold 5320H
@ 0.00 GHz
0 (0%)
Qualcomm Snapdragon 653 Qualcomm Snapdragon 653
Qualcomm Adreno 510 @ 0.60 GHz
154 (100%)

Devices using this processor

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