AMD EPYC 7272 vs Intel Xeon E5 2660 v2

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AMD EPYC 7272

Intel Xeon E5-2660 v2

We compared two server CPUs: AMD EPYC 7272 with 12 cores 2.6GHz and Intel Xeon E5 2660 v2 with 10 cores 2.2GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD EPYC 7272 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Higher specification of memory (3200 vs 3)

Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)

Higher base frequency (2.6GHz vs 2.2GHz)

Larger L3 cache size (64MB vs 25MB)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 22nm)

Intel Xeon E5 2660 v2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD EPYC 7272 +99%

683

Intel Xeon E5 2660 v2

342

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD EPYC 7272 +40%

4227

Intel Xeon E5 2660 v2

3008

AMD EPYC 7272

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Intel Xeon E5 2660 v2

General Parameters

Aug 2019

Release Date

Sep 2013

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Server

Type

Server

Rome

Core Architecture

Ivy Bridge-EP

AMD Socket SP3

Socket

Intel Socket 2011

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

EPYC (Zen 2 (Rome))

Generation

Xeon E5 (Ivy Bridge-EP)

Package

3.8 billions

Transistor Count

1.4 billions

7 nm

Manufacturing Process

22 nm

120 W

Power Consumption

95 W

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

74 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

CPU Performance

2.6 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.2 GHz

3.2 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3 GHz

12

Total Core Count

10

24

Total Thread Count

20

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

26.0

Multiplier

32.0

96 K per core

L1 Cache

64 K per core

512 K per core

L2 Cache

256 K per core

64 MB shared

L3 Cache

25 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

2

SMP

2

Memory Parameters

DDR4-3200

Memory Types

DDR3

8

Max Memory Channels

4

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

4

PCIe Version

3

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