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 7 of 15. 10 Comments.
Chaos Group V-RAY benchmark with settings of Mode: CPU. Threadripper 9980X was the fastest.
Chaos Group V-RAY benchmark with settings of Mode: CPU. Threadripper 9980X was the fastest.
Chaos Group V-RAY benchmark with settings of Mode: CPU. Threadripper 9980X was the fastest.

Moving to some CPU-based rendering workloads, the proprietary V-RAY heavily favored the Ryzen Threadripper 9980X.

IndigoBench benchmark with settings of Acceleration: CPU, Scene: Bedroom. Threadripper 9980X was the fastest.
IndigoBench benchmark with settings of Acceleration: CPU, Scene: Supercar. Threadripper 9980X was the fastest.
IndigoBench benchmark with settings of Acceleration: CPU, Scene: Supercar. Threadripper 9980X was the fastest.
IndigoBench benchmark with settings of Acceleration: CPU, Scene: Supercar. Threadripper 9980X was the fastest.

With the Indigo renderer, Threadripper again was delivering much faster render times than the Xeon 678X.

Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: BMW27, Compute: CPU-Only. Threadripper 9980X was the fastest.
Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: Junkshop, Compute: CPU-Only. Threadripper 9980X was the fastest.
Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: Classroom, Compute: CPU-Only. Threadripper 9980X was the fastest.
Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: Fishy Cat, Compute: CPU-Only. Threadripper 9980X was the fastest.
Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: Barbershop, Compute: CPU-Only. Threadripper 9980X was the fastest.
Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: Barbershop, Compute: CPU-Only. Threadripper 9980X was the fastest.
Blender benchmark with settings of Blend File: Barbershop, Compute: CPU-Only. Threadripper 9980X was the fastest.

Or with the open-source Blender 3D modeling software, AMD Ryzen Threadripper is the easy favorite.

LuxCoreRender benchmark with settings of Scene: DLSC, Acceleration: CPU. Threadripper 9980X was the fastest.
LuxCoreRender benchmark with settings of Scene: Danish Mood, Acceleration: CPU. Threadripper 9980X was the fastest.
LuxCoreRender benchmark with settings of Scene: LuxCore Benchmark, Acceleration: CPU. Threadripper 9980X was the fastest.

In all of the renderers tested, the Threadripper 9980X even at 48 cores was faster than the Xeon 678X.

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