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Intel Xeon 6960E+ vs AMD Ryzen 5 8540U

	CPU Intel Xeon 6960E+	CPU AMD Ryzen 5 8540U
General Parameters
Release Date	May 2026	Dec 2023
Manufacturer	Intel	Amd
Type	Server	Laptop
Core Architecture	Clearwater Forest	Zen 4 (Hawk Point)
Integrated Graphics	N/A	Radeon 740M
Generation	Xeon 6+ (Clearwater Forest-SP)	Ryzen 5 (Zen 4 (Hawk Point))
Instruction Set		x86-64
Package
Manufacturing Process	3 nm	4 nm
Socket	Intel Socket 7529	FP7
Power Consumption	330 W	15-30 W
Peak Operating Temperature	98°C	100 °C
Foundry	Intel	TSMC
I/O Process Size	10 nm
I/O Die Size	2x 241
Package	FC-LGA18N	FP7, FP7r2
Transistor Count		20.9 billions
Die Size		137 mm²
CPU Performance
Performance Core Base Frequency	2.4 GHz	3.2 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency	3.2 GHz	4.9 GHz
Total Core Count	144	6
Total Thread Count	144	12
Bus Frequency	100 MHz	100 MHz
Multiplier	24.0	32x
L1 Cache	96 KB per core	64 K per core
L2 Cache	4 MB per module	1 MB per core
L3 Cache	432 MB shared	16 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier	No	No
SMP	2	1
Performance Cores		2
Performance Core Threads		4
Efficiency Cores		4
Efficiency Core Threads		8
Efficiency Core Base Frequency		3 GHz
Efficiency Core Turbo Frequency		3.7 GHz
Memory Parameters
Memory Types	DDR5-8000	DDR5-5600, LPDDR5x-7500
Max Memory Size	1.5 TB	256 GB
Max Memory Channels	12	2
Max Memory Bandwidth	768.0 GB/s	89.6 GB/s
ECC Memory Support	Yes	No
Miscellaneous
PCIe Version	5	4.0
PCIe Lanes	96	14
Official Website		Official Link ↗
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics		true
GPU Base Frequency		800 MHz
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency		2800 MHz
Shader Units		256
Texture Units		16
Raster Operation Units		8
Execution Units		4
Power Consumption		15 W