AMD EPYC 72F3 vs Intel Xeon E5 2698B v3

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AMD EPYC 72F3

Intel Xeon E5-2698B v3

We compared two server CPUs: AMD EPYC 72F3 with 8 cores 3.7GHz and Intel Xeon E5 2698B v3 with 16 cores 2GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD EPYC 72F3 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Higher specification of memory (3200 vs 2133)

Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)

Higher base frequency (3.7GHz vs 2GHz)

Larger L3 cache size (256MB vs 40MB)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 22nm)

Intel Xeon E5 2698B v3 's Advantages

Lower TDP (135W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD EPYC 72F3 +88%

1805

Intel Xeon E5 2698B v3

959

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD EPYC 72F3 +63%

11422

Intel Xeon E5 2698B v3

6975

AMD EPYC 72F3

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Intel Xeon E5 2698B v3

General Parameters

Mar 2021

Release Date

Jan 2015

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Server

Type

Server

Milan

Core Architecture

Haswell-EP

AMD Socket SP3

Socket

Intel Socket 2011-3

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

EPYC (Zen 3 (Milan))

Generation

Xeon E5 (Haswell-EP)

Package

33.2 billions

Transistor Count

2.6 billions

7 nm

Manufacturing Process

22 nm

180 W

Power Consumption

135 W

-

Peak Operating Temperature

88 °C

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

8x81 mm²

Die Size

356 mm²

12 nm

I/O Process Size

-

416 mm²

I/O Die Size

-

CPU Performance

3.7 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2 GHz

4.1 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3.4 GHz

8

Total Core Count

16

Total Thread Count

32

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

37.0

Multiplier

20.0

64 KB per core

L1 Cache

64 K per core

512 KB per core

L2 Cache

256 K per core

256 MB shared

L3 Cache

40 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

1

Cores per CCD

-

2

SMP

2

Memory Parameters

DDR4-3200

Memory Types

DDR4-2133

8

Max Memory Channels

4

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

4

PCIe Version

3

128

PCIe Lanes

40

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