Intel Xeon Gold 6240L vs AMD Ryzen 7 6800U

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Intel Xeon Gold 6240L CPU1 vs CPU2 AMD Ryzen 7 6800U
Intel Xeon Gold 6240L AMD Ryzen 7 6800U

CPU comparison

Intel Xeon Gold 6240L or AMD Ryzen 7 6800U - 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 6240L has 18 cores with 36 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.90 GHz. Up to 4608 GB of memory is supported in 6 memory channels. The Intel Xeon Gold 6240L was released in Q2/2019.

The AMD Ryzen 7 6800U has 8 cores with 16 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.70 GHz. The CPU supports up to 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen 7 6800U was released in Q1/2022.
Intel Xeon Gold (163) Family AMD Ryzen 7 (68)
Intel Xeon Gold 5200/6200 (55) CPU group AMD Ryzen 6000U/7035U (9)
2 Generation 5
Cascade Lake Architecture Rembrandt (Zen 3+)
Desktop / Server Segment Mobile
-- Predecessor AMD Ryzen 7 5800U
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Xeon Gold 6240L is a 18 core processor with a clock frequency of 2.60 GHz (3.90 GHz). The AMD Ryzen 7 6800U has 8 CPU cores with a clock frequency of 2.70 GHz (4.70 GHz).
Intel Xeon Gold 6240L Characteristic AMD Ryzen 7 6800U
18 Cores 8
36 Threads 16
normal Core architecture normal
Yes Hyperthreading Yes
No Overclocking ? No
2.60 GHz Frequency 2.70 GHz
3.90 GHz Turbo Frequency (1 Core) 4.70 GHz
3.20 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.
Intel Xeon Gold 6240L Characteristic AMD Ryzen 7 6800U
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

The integrated graphics unit of a processor is not only responsible for the pure image output on the system, but can also significantly increase the efficiency of the system with the support of modern video codecs.
no iGPU GPU AMD Radeon 680M
GPU frequency 2.00 GHz
-- GPU (Turbo) 2.20 GHz
-- GPU Generation 9
Technology 6 nm
Max. displays 3
-- Compute units 12
-- Shader 768
No Hardware Raytracing Yes
No Frame Generation No
-- Max. GPU Memory 8 GB
-- DirectX Version 12

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 AMD Radeon 680M
No Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode / Encode
No Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode / Encode
No Codec h264 Decode / Encode
No Codec VP9 Decode / Encode
No Codec VP8 Decode / Encode
No Codec AV1 Decode
No Codec AVC Decode / Encode
No Codec VC-1 Decode
No Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The Intel Xeon Gold 6240L supports a maximum of 4608 GB of memory in 6 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen 7 6800U can connect up to 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels.
Intel Xeon Gold 6240L Characteristic AMD Ryzen 7 6800U
DDR4-2933 Memory LPDDR5-6400, DDR5-4800
4608 GB Max. Memory 64 GB
6 (Hexa Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
140.7 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 76.8 GB/s
Yes ECC No
-- L2 Cache 4.00 MB
24.75 MB L3 Cache 16.00 MB
3.0 PCIe version 4.0
48 PCIe lanes 12
47.3 GB/s PCIe Bandwidth 23.6 GB/s

Thermal Management

The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of a processor specifies the required cooling solution. The Intel Xeon Gold 6240L has a TDP of 150 W, that of the AMD Ryzen 7 6800U is 15 W.
Intel Xeon Gold 6240L Characteristic AMD Ryzen 7 6800U
150 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 15 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up 28 W
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. 105 °C

Technical details

The Intel Xeon Gold 6240L has a 24.75 MB cache, while the AMD Ryzen 7 6800U cache has a total of 20.00 MB.
Intel Xeon Gold 6240L Characteristic AMD Ryzen 7 6800U
14 nm Technology 6 nm
Monolithic Chip design Monolithic
x86-64 (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 ISA extensions SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
LGA 3647 Socket FP7
VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d Virtualization AMD-V, SVM
Yes AES-NI Yes
Windows 10, Linux Operating systems Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Q2/2019 Release date Q1/2022
-- Release price --
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks
Intel Xeon Gold 6240L (73%)
AMD Ryzen 7 6800U (100%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 0 CPU benchmarks
Intel Xeon Gold 6240L (0%)
AMD Ryzen 7 6800U (0%)

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 6240L Intel Xeon Gold 6240L
18C 36T @ 3.90 GHz
1102 (73%)
AMD Ryzen 7 6800U AMD Ryzen 7 6800U
8C 16T @ 4.70 GHz
1517 (100%)

Cinebench 2024 (Single-Core)

The Cinebench 2024 benchmark is based on the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxon's 3D program Cinema 4D. The benchmark runs are each 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
Intel Xeon Gold 6240L Intel Xeon Gold 6240L
18C 36T @ 3.90 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 7 6800U AMD Ryzen 7 6800U
8C 16T @ 4.70 GHz
83 (100%)

Cinebench 2024 (Multi-Core)

The Multi-Core test of the Cinebench 2024 benchmark uses all cpu cores to render using the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxons Cinema 4D. The benchmark run is 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
Intel Xeon Gold 6240L Intel Xeon Gold 6240L
18C 36T @ 3.90 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 7 6800U AMD Ryzen 7 6800U
8C 16T @ 4.70 GHz
574 (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.
Intel Xeon Gold 6240L Intel Xeon Gold 6240L
18C 36T @ 3.90 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 7 6800U AMD Ryzen 7 6800U
8C 16T @ 4.70 GHz
1475 (100%)

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.
Intel Xeon Gold 6240L Intel Xeon Gold 6240L
18C 36T @ 3.20 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 7 6800U AMD Ryzen 7 6800U
8C 16T @ 3.40 GHz
10412 (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 6240L Intel Xeon Gold 6240L
18C 36T @ 3.20 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 7 6800U AMD Ryzen 7 6800U
8C 16T @ 3.40 GHz
7335 (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 6240L Intel Xeon Gold 6240L
18C 36T @ 3.90 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 7 6800U AMD Ryzen 7 6800U
8C 16T @ 4.70 GHz
1861 (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 6240L Intel Xeon Gold 6240L
18C 36T @ 3.20 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 7 6800U AMD Ryzen 7 6800U
8C 16T @ 3.40 GHz
7896 (100%)

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.
Intel Xeon Gold 6240L Intel Xeon Gold 6240L
18C 36T @ 3.90 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 7 6800U AMD Ryzen 7 6800U
8C 16T @ 4.70 GHz
575 (100%)

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.
Intel Xeon Gold 6240L Intel Xeon Gold 6240L
18C 36T @ 3.20 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 7 6800U AMD Ryzen 7 6800U
8C 16T @ 3.40 GHz
4122 (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 6240L Intel Xeon Gold 6240L
@ 0.00 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 7 6800U AMD Ryzen 7 6800U
AMD Radeon 680M @ 2.20 GHz
3379 (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.
Intel Xeon Gold 6240L Intel Xeon Gold 6240L
18C 36T @ 3.20 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 7 6800U AMD Ryzen 7 6800U
8C 16T @ 3.40 GHz
20615 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 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.
Intel Xeon Gold 6240L Intel Xeon Gold 6240L
18C 36T @ 3.90 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 7 6800U AMD Ryzen 7 6800U
8C 16T @ 4.70 GHz
237 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 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.
Intel Xeon Gold 6240L Intel Xeon Gold 6240L
18C 36T @ 3.20 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 7 6800U AMD Ryzen 7 6800U
8C 16T @ 3.40 GHz
1755 (100%)

Devices using this processor
Intel Xeon Gold 6240L AMD Ryzen 7 6800U
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