AMD EPYC 7502 vs Intel Xeon E5 2690

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AMD EPYC 7502

Intel Xeon E5-2690

We compared two server CPUs: AMD EPYC 7502 with 32 cores 2.5GHz and Intel Xeon E5 2690 with 8 cores 2.9GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD EPYC 7502 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Higher specification of memory (3200 vs 3)

Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)

Larger L3 cache size (128MB vs 20MB)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 32nm)

Intel Xeon E5 2690 's Advantages

Higher base frequency (2.9GHz vs 2.5GHz)

Lower TDP (135W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD EPYC 7502 +13%

1225

Intel Xeon E5 2690

1084

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD EPYC 7502 +22%

11663

Intel Xeon E5 2690

9549

AMD EPYC 7502

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Intel Xeon E5 2690

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

180 W

Power Consumption

135 W

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

74 mm²

Die Size

435 mm²

CPU Performance

2.5 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.9 GHz

3.35 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3.8 GHz

32

Total Core Count

8

64

Total Thread Count

16

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

25.0

Multiplier

29.0

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

20 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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