AMD EPYC 7302 vs Intel Xeon E5 2640

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AMD EPYC 7302

Intel Xeon E5-2640

We compared two server CPUs: AMD EPYC 7302 with 16 cores 3GHz and Intel Xeon E5 2640 with 6 cores 2.5GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD EPYC 7302 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Higher specification of memory (3200 vs 3)

Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)

Higher base frequency (3GHz vs 2.5GHz)

Larger L3 cache size (128MB vs 15MB)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 32nm)

Intel Xeon E5 2640 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 155W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD EPYC 7302 +70%

1361

Intel Xeon E5 2640

800

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD EPYC 7302 +235%

10652

Intel Xeon E5 2640

3177

AMD EPYC 7302

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Intel Xeon E5 2640

General Parameters

Aug 2019

Release Date

Mar 2012

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Server

Type

Server

Rome

Core Architecture

Sandy Bridge-EP

AMD Socket SP3

Socket

Intel Socket 2011

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

EPYC (Zen 2 (Rome))

Generation

Xeon E5 (Sandy Bridge-EP)

Package

3.8 billions

Transistor Count

2.27 billions

7 nm

Manufacturing Process

32 nm

155 W

Power Consumption

95 W

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

74 mm²

Die Size

435 mm²

CPU Performance

3 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.5 GHz

3.3 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3 GHz

16

Total Core Count

6

32

Total Thread Count

12

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

30.0

Multiplier

25.0

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

15 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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