AMD EPYC 7542 vs Xeon Gold 6554S

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AMD EPYC 7542

Intel Xeon Gold 6554S

We compared two server CPUs: AMD EPYC 7542 with 32 cores 2.9GHz and Xeon Gold 6554S with 36 cores 2.2GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD EPYC 7542 's Advantages

Higher base frequency (2.9GHz vs 2.2GHz)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 10nm)

Lower TDP (225W vs 270W)

Xeon Gold 6554S 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Higher specification of memory (5200 vs 3200)

Newer PCIe version (5 vs 4)

Larger L3 cache size (180MB vs 128MB)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD EPYC 7542 +6%

1376

Xeon Gold 6554S

1289

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD EPYC 7542

2532

Xeon Gold 6554S +473%

14516

AMD EPYC 7542

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Xeon Gold 6554S

General Parameters

Aug 2019

Release Date

Dec 2023

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Server

Type

Server

Rome

Core Architecture

Emerald Rapids

AMD Socket SP3

Socket

Intel Socket 4677

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

EPYC (Zen 2 (Rome))

Generation

Xeon Gold (Emerald Rapids-SP)

Package

3.8 billions

Transistor Count

-

7 nm

Manufacturing Process

10 nm

225 W

Power Consumption

270 W

-

Peak Operating Temperature

74 °C

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

74 mm²

Die Size

2x763 mm²

CPU Performance

2.9 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.2 GHz

3.4 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

4 GHz

32

Total Core Count

36

64

Total Thread Count

72

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

29.0

Multiplier

22.0

96 K per core

L1 Cache

80 KB per core

512 K per core

L2 Cache

2 MB per core

128 MB shared

L3 Cache

180 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

2

SMP

2

-

AVX-512 FMA Ports

2

Memory Parameters

DDR4-3200

Memory Types

DDR5-5200

8

Max Memory Channels

8

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

4

PCIe Version

5

-

PCIe Lanes

80

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