Intel Xeon Platinum 8153 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX

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Intel Xeon Platinum 8153 CPU1 vs CPU2 AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
Intel Xeon Platinum 8153 AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX

CPU comparison

In this CPU comparison, we compare the Intel Xeon Platinum 8153 and the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX and use benchmarks to check which processor is faster.

We compare the Intel Xeon Platinum 8153 16 core processor released in Q3/2017 with the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX which has 16 CPU cores and was introduced in Q1/2023.
Intel Xeon Platinum (89) Family AMD Ryzen 9 (35)
Intel Xeon Platinum 8100 (16) CPU group AMD Ryzen 7045 (6)
1 Generation 6
Skylake Architecture Dragon Range (Zen 4)
Desktop / Server Segment Mobile
-- Predecessor --
-- Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Xeon Platinum 8153 is a 16 core processor with a clock frequency of 2.00 GHz (2.80 GHz). The processor can compute 32 threads at the same time. The AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX clocks with 2.50 GHz (5.40 GHz), has 16 CPU cores and can calculate 32 threads in parallel.

Intel Xeon Platinum 8153 Characteristic AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
16 Cores 16
32 Threads 32
normal Core architecture normal
Yes Hyperthreading Yes
No Overclocking ? Yes
2.00 GHz Frequency 2.50 GHz
2.80 GHz Turbo Frequency (1 Core) 5.40 GHz
2.40 GHz Turbo Frequency (All Cores) --

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 Platinum 8153 Characteristic AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

Graphics (iGPU) integrated into the processor not only enable image output without having to rely on a dedicated graphics solution, but can also efficiently accelerate video playback.

no iGPU GPU AMD Radeon 610M
GPU frequency 0.40 GHz
-- GPU (Turbo) 2.20 GHz
-- GPU Generation 9
Technology 6 nm
Max. displays 3
-- Compute units 2
-- Shader 128
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 610M
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

Up to 768 GB of memory in a maximum of 6 memory channels is supported by the Intel Xeon Platinum 8153, while the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX supports a maximum of 128 GB of memory with a maximum memory bandwidth of 83.2 GB/s enabled.

Intel Xeon Platinum 8153 Characteristic AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
DDR4-2666 Memory DDR5-5200
768 GB Max. Memory 128 GB
6 (Hexa Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
128.1 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 83.2 GB/s
Yes ECC Yes
-- L2 Cache 16.00 MB
22.00 MB L3 Cache 64.00 MB
3.0 PCIe version 5.0
48 PCIe lanes 28
47.3 GB/s PCIe Bandwidth 110.3 GB/s

Thermal Management

The Intel Xeon Platinum 8153 has a TDP of 125 W. The TDP of the AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX is 55 W. System integrators use the TDP of the processor as a guide when dimensioning the cooling solution.

Intel Xeon Platinum 8153 Characteristic AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
125 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 55 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up 75 W
-- TDP down --
-- Tjunction max. 100 °C

Technical details

The Intel Xeon Platinum 8153 has 22.00 MB cache and is manufactured in 14 nm. The cache of AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX is at 80.00 MB. The processor is manufactured in 5 nm.

Intel Xeon Platinum 8153 Characteristic AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
14 nm Technology 5 nm
Monolithic Chip design Chiplet
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,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512
LGA 3647 Socket FL1
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
Q3/2017 Release date Q1/2023
3100 $ Release price --
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks
Intel Xeon Platinum 8153 (38%)
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX (100%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks
Intel Xeon Platinum 8153 (38%)
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX (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.
Intel Xeon Platinum 8153 Intel Xeon Platinum 8153
16C 32T @ 2.80 GHz
788 (37%)
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
16C 32T @ 5.40 GHz
2130 (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 Platinum 8153 Intel Xeon Platinum 8153
16C 32T @ 2.80 GHz
122 (39%)
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
16C 32T @ 5.40 GHz
312 (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 Platinum 8153 Intel Xeon Platinum 8153
16C 32T @ 2.40 GHz
2124 (38%)
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
16C 32T @ 2.50 GHz
5597 (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 Platinum 8153 Intel Xeon Platinum 8153
16C 32T @ 2.80 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
16C 32T @ 5.40 GHz
114 (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 Platinum 8153 Intel Xeon Platinum 8153
16C 32T @ 2.80 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
16C 32T @ 5.40 GHz
1669 (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 Platinum 8153 Intel Xeon Platinum 8153
16C 32T @ 2.80 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
16C 32T @ 5.40 GHz
1955 (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 Platinum 8153 Intel Xeon Platinum 8153
16C 32T @ 2.40 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
16C 32T @ 2.50 GHz
32788 (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 Platinum 8153 Intel Xeon Platinum 8153
16C 32T @ 2.40 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
16C 32T @ 2.50 GHz
19472 (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 Platinum 8153 Intel Xeon Platinum 8153
16C 32T @ 2.80 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
16C 32T @ 5.40 GHz
2774 (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 Platinum 8153 Intel Xeon Platinum 8153
16C 32T @ 2.40 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
16C 32T @ 2.50 GHz
16214 (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 Platinum 8153 Intel Xeon Platinum 8153
16C 32T @ 2.80 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
16C 32T @ 5.40 GHz
758 (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 Platinum 8153 Intel Xeon Platinum 8153
16C 32T @ 2.40 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
16C 32T @ 2.50 GHz
12914 (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 Platinum 8153 Intel Xeon Platinum 8153
@ 0.00 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
AMD Radeon 610M @ 2.20 GHz
443 (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 Platinum 8153 Intel Xeon Platinum 8153
16C 32T @ 2.40 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
16C 32T @ 2.50 GHz
58842 (100%)

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.
Intel Xeon Platinum 8153 Intel Xeon Platinum 8153
16C 32T @ 2.40 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
16C 32T @ 2.50 GHz
94 (100%)

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)

Efficiency of the processor under full load in the Cinebench R23 (multi-core) benchmark. The benchmark result is divided by the average energy required (CPU package power in watts). The higher the value, the more efficient the CPU is under full load.
Intel Xeon Platinum 8153 Intel Xeon Platinum 8153
2.00 GHz
0 (0%)
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
32,788 CB R23 MC @ 134 W
245 (100%)

Devices using this processor

Intel Xeon Platinum 8153 AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX
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