AMD EPYC 73F3 vs Intel Xeon E5 2420

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AMD EPYC 73F3

Intel Xeon E5-2420

We compared two server CPUs: AMD EPYC 73F3 with 16 cores 3.5GHz and Intel Xeon E5 2420 with 6 cores 1.9GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD EPYC 73F3 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 10 months late

Higher specification of memory (3200 vs 3)

Higher base frequency (3.5GHz vs 1.9GHz)

Larger L3 cache size (256MB vs 15MB)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 32nm)

Intel Xeon E5 2420 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 240W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD EPYC 73F3 +35%

501

Intel Xeon E5 2420

371

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD EPYC 73F3 +24%

2348

Intel Xeon E5 2420

1884

AMD EPYC 73F3

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Intel Xeon E5 2420

General Parameters

Mar 2021

Release Date

May 2012

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Server

Type

Server

Milan

Core Architecture

Sandy Bridge-EN

AMD Socket SP3

Socket

Intel Socket 1356

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

EPYC (Zen 3 (Milan))

Generation

Xeon E5 (Sandy Bridge-EN)

Package

33.2 billions

Transistor Count

1.27 billions

7 nm

Manufacturing Process

32 nm

240 W

Power Consumption

95 W

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

8x81 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

12 nm

I/O Process Size

-

416 mm²

I/O Die Size

-

CPU Performance

3.5 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

1.9 GHz

4 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

2.4 GHz

16

Total Core Count

6

32

Total Thread Count

12

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

35.0

Multiplier

19.0

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

15 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

2

Cores per CCD

-

2

SMP

2

Memory Parameters

DDR4-3200

Memory Types

DDR3

8

Max Memory Channels

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

4

PCIe Version

-

128

PCIe Lanes

-

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