Intel Xeon 600 Workstation Performance vs. AMD Threadripper 9000 In Nearly 400 Benchmarks

Written by Michael Larabel in Processors on 10 September 2026 at 12:43 PM EDT. Page 5 of 15. 10 Comments.
OpenFOAM benchmark with settings of Input: drivaerFastback, Small Mesh Size, Execution Time. Threadripper 9980X was the fastest.
OpenFOAM benchmark with settings of Input: drivaerFastback, Small Mesh Size, Execution Time. Threadripper 9980X was the fastest.
OpenFOAM benchmark with settings of Input: drivaerFastback, Small Mesh Size, Execution Time. Threadripper 9980X was the fastest.
OpenFOAM benchmark with settings of Input: drivaerFastback, Medium Mesh Size, Mesh Time. Threadripper 9980X @ 48 Cores was the fastest.
OpenFOAM benchmark with settings of Input: drivaerFastback, Medium Mesh Size, Execution Time. Xeon 678X was the fastest.
OpenFOAM benchmark with settings of Input: drivaerFastback, Medium Mesh Size, Execution Time. Xeon 678X was the fastest.
OpenFOAM benchmark with settings of Input: drivaerFastback, Medium Mesh Size, Execution Time. Xeon 678X was the fastest.

With the OpenFOAM computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software was stronger performance with the AMD Ryzen Threadripper workstation even at the same 48 core count for smaller models while at larger models was neck-and-neck. If the Threadripper 99980X had DDR5-6400 memory in this workstation like the HP workstation, the Zen 5 workstation may have edged out in this memory bandwidth intensive application.

OpenRadioss benchmark with settings of Model: Bumper Beam. Threadripper 9980X was the fastest.
OpenRadioss benchmark with settings of Model: Ford Taurus 10M. Threadripper 9980X was the fastest.
OpenRadioss benchmark with settings of Model: Cell Phone Drop Test. Threadripper 9980X was the fastest.
OpenRadioss benchmark with settings of Model: Bird Strike on Windshield. Threadripper 9980X @ 48 Cores was the fastest.
OpenRadioss benchmark with settings of Model: Rubber O-Ring Seal Installation. Threadripper 9980X @ 48 Cores was the fastest.
OpenRadioss benchmark with settings of Model: INIVOL and Fluid Structure Interaction Drop Container. Threadripper 9980X @ 48 Cores was the fastest.

Across the various benchmarks of OpenRadioss as the open-source software built out of Altair's Radioss, AMD Ryzen Threadripper had a clean sweep.

SPECFEM3D benchmark with settings of Model: Mount St. Helens. Threadripper 9980X was the fastest.
SPECFEM3D benchmark with settings of Model: Layered Halfspace. Threadripper 9980X was the fastest.
SPECFEM3D benchmark with settings of Model: Water-layered Halfspace. Threadripper 9980X was the fastest.

And a clean sweep too for the SPECFEM3D seismic wave propagation scientific software.

LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator benchmark with settings of Model: 20k Atoms. Threadripper 9980X was the fastest.
LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator benchmark with settings of Model: 61k Atoms. Threadripper 9980X was the fastest.
LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator benchmark with settings of Model: 61k Atoms. Threadripper 9980X was the fastest.
LAMMPS Molecular Dynamics Simulator benchmark with settings of Model: 61k Atoms. Threadripper 9980X was the fastest.

And for LAMMPS too.

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