Intel Xeon 6970E+ vs AMD Athlon Gold 20
CPU · Specs Compare
General Parameters
Release Date
May 2026
Oct 2025
Manufacturer
Intel
AMD
Type
Server
Laptop
Core Architecture
Clearwater Forest
Mendocino
Integrated Graphics
N/A
Radeon 610M
Generation
Xeon 6+ (Clearwater Forest-SP)
Athlon (Zen 2 (Mendocino))
Package
Manufacturing Process
3 nm
6 nm
Socket
Intel Socket 7529
AMD Socket FT6
Power Consumption
400 W
15 W
Peak Operating Temperature
102°C
95°C
Foundry
Intel
TSMC
I/O Process Size
10 nm
—
I/O Die Size
2x 241
—
Package
FC-LGA18N
FT6
Die Size
—
100 mm²
CPU Performance
Performance Core Base Frequency
2.3 GHz
2.4 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency
3.2 GHz
3.7 GHz
Total Core Count
192
2
Total Thread Count
192
4
Bus Frequency
100 MHz
100 MHz
Multiplier
23.0
24.0
L1 Cache
96 KB per core
64 KB per core
L2 Cache
4 MB per module
512 KB per core
L3 Cache
480 MB shared
4 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier
No
No
SMP
2
1
Memory Parameters
Memory Types
DDR5-8000
LPDDR5-5500
Max Memory Size
1.5 TB
—
Max Memory Channels
12
2
Max Memory Bandwidth
768.0 GB/s
—
ECC Memory Support
Yes
No
Miscellaneous
PCIe Version
5
3
PCIe Lanes
96
4
Benchmark
Geekbench 6
—
888
Geekbench 6
—
1,822
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Data sourced from official specifications and benchmark tests.