AMD EPYC 7262 vs Intel Xeon X5660

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AMD EPYC 7262

Intel Xeon X5660

We compared two server CPUs: AMD EPYC 7262 with 8 cores 3.1GHz and Intel Xeon X5660 with 6 cores 2.8GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD EPYC 7262 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 5 months late

Higher specification of memory (3200 vs 3)

Newer PCIe version (4 vs 2)

Higher base frequency (3.1GHz vs 2.8GHz)

Larger L3 cache size (128MB vs 12MB)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 32nm)

Intel Xeon X5660 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 155W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD EPYC 7262 +156%

1210

Intel Xeon X5660

471

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD EPYC 7262 +8%

2249

Intel Xeon X5660

2075

AMD EPYC 7262

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Intel Xeon X5660

General Parameters

Aug 2019

Release Date

Mar 2010

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Server

Type

Server

Rome

Core Architecture

Westmere-EP

AMD Socket SP3

Socket

Intel Socket 1366

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

EPYC (Zen 2 (Rome))

Generation

Xeon (Westmere-EP)

Package

3.8 billions

Transistor Count

1.17 billions

7 nm

Manufacturing Process

32 nm

155 W

Power Consumption

95 W

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

74 mm²

Die Size

239 mm²

CPU Performance

3.1 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.8 GHz

3.3 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3.2 GHz

8

Total Core Count

6

16

Total Thread Count

12

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

133 MHz

31.0

Multiplier

21.0

96 K per core

L1 Cache

64 K per core

512 K per core

L2 Cache

256 K per core

128 MB shared

L3 Cache

12 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

2

SMP

2

Memory Parameters

DDR4-3200

Memory Types

DDR3

8

Max Memory Channels

3

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

4

PCIe Version

2

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