AMD EPYC 7401 vs Intel Xeon E5 2696 v3

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AMD EPYC 7401

Intel Xeon E5-2696 v3

We compared two server CPUs: AMD EPYC 7401 with 24 cores 2GHz and Intel Xeon E5 2696 v3 with 18 cores 2.3GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD EPYC 7401 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 9 months late

Higher specification of memory (2666 vs 2133)

Larger L3 cache size (64MB vs 45MB)

More modern manufacturing process (14nm vs 22nm)

Intel Xeon E5 2696 v3 's Advantages

Higher base frequency (2.3GHz vs 2GHz)

Lower TDP (145W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD EPYC 7401

771

Intel Xeon E5 2696 v3 +26%

976

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD EPYC 7401

1304

Intel Xeon E5 2696 v3 +551%

8501

AMD EPYC 7401

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Intel Xeon E5 2696 v3

General Parameters

Jun 2017

Release Date

Sep 2014

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Server

Type

Server

Naples

Core Architecture

Haswell-EP

AMD Socket SP3

Socket

Intel Socket 2011-3

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

EPYC (Zen (Naples))

Generation

Xeon E5 (Haswell-EP)

Package

4.8 billions

Transistor Count

5.69 billions

14 nm

Manufacturing Process

22 nm

170 W

Power Consumption

145 W

85 °C

Peak Operating Temperature

77 °C

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Intel

213 mm²

Die Size

622 mm²

CPU Performance

2 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.3 GHz

3 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3.8 GHz

24

Total Core Count

18

48

Total Thread Count

36

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

20.0

Multiplier

23.0

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

45 MB shared

Yes

Unlocked Multiplier

No

2

SMP

2

Memory Parameters

DDR4-2666

Memory Types

DDR3,DDR4-2133

8

Max Memory Channels

4

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

3

PCIe Version

3

-

PCIe Lanes

40

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