AMD EPYC 7542 vs Intel Xeon E5 2428L

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AMD EPYC 7542

Intel Xeon E5-2428L

We compared two server CPUs: AMD EPYC 7542 with 32 cores 2.9GHz and Intel Xeon E5 2428L with 6 cores 1.8GHz . 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 7 years and 3 months late

Higher specification of memory (3200 vs 3)

Higher base frequency (2.9GHz vs 1.8GHz)

Larger L3 cache size (128MB vs 15MB)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 32nm)

Intel Xeon E5 2428L 's Advantages

Lower TDP (60W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD EPYC 7542 +273%

1376

Intel Xeon E5 2428L

368

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD EPYC 7542

2532

Intel Xeon E5 2428L +5%

2680

AMD EPYC 7542

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Intel Xeon E5 2428L

General Parameters

Aug 2019

Release Date

May 2012

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Server

Type

Server

Rome

Core Architecture

Sandy Bridge-EN

AMD Socket SP3

Socket

Intel Socket 1356

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

EPYC (Zen 2 (Rome))

Generation

Xeon E5 (Sandy Bridge-EN)

Package

3.8 billions

Transistor Count

1.27 billions

7 nm

Manufacturing Process

32 nm

225 W

Power Consumption

60 W

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

74 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

CPU Performance

2.9 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

1.8 GHz

3.4 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

2 GHz

32

Total Core Count

6

64

Total Thread Count

12

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

29.0

Multiplier

18.0

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

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

4

PCIe Version

-

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