AMD EPYC 7542 vs Intel Xeon E3 1245 v3

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AMD EPYC 7542

Intel Xeon E3-1245 v3

We compared two server CPUs: AMD EPYC 7542 with 32 cores 2.9GHz and Intel Xeon E3 1245 v3 with 4 cores 3.4GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD EPYC 7542 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

Higher specification of memory (3200 vs 4)

Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)

Larger L3 cache size (128MB vs 8MB)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 22nm)

Intel Xeon E3 1245 v3 's Advantages

Higher base frequency (3.4GHz vs 2.9GHz)

Lower TDP (84W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD EPYC 7542 +17%

1376

Intel Xeon E3 1245 v3

1173

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD EPYC 7542

2532

Intel Xeon E3 1245 v3 +54%

3919

AMD EPYC 7542

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Intel Xeon E3 1245 v3

General Parameters

Aug 2019

Release Date

Jun 2013

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Server

Type

Server

Rome

Core Architecture

Haswell-WS

AMD Socket SP3

Socket

Intel Socket 1150

N/A

Integrated Graphics

Intel HD P4600

EPYC (Zen 2 (Rome))

Generation

Xeon E3 (Haswell-WS)

Package

3.8 billions

Transistor Count

1.4 billions

7 nm

Manufacturing Process

22 nm

225 W

Power Consumption

84 W

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

74 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

CPU Performance

2.9 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

3.4 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3.8 GHz

32

Total Core Count

4

64

Total Thread Count

8

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

29.0

Multiplier

34.0

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

8 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

2

SMP

1

Memory Parameters

DDR4-3200

Memory Types

DDR3,DDR4

8

Max Memory Channels

2

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

4

PCIe Version

3

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