AMD EPYC 7642 vs Intel Xeon w5 2455X

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AMD EPYC 7642

Intel Xeon w5-2455X

We compared two server CPUs: AMD EPYC 7642 with 48 cores 2.4GHz and Intel Xeon w5 2455X with 12 cores 3.2GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD EPYC 7642 's Advantages

Larger L3 cache size (256MB vs 30MB)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 10nm)

Intel Xeon w5 2455X 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Higher specification of memory (4800 vs 3200)

Newer PCIe version (5 vs 4)

Higher base frequency (3.2GHz vs 2.4GHz)

Lower TDP (200W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD EPYC 7642

1191

Intel Xeon w5 2455X +74%

2081

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD EPYC 7642 +2%

11362

Intel Xeon w5 2455X

11071

AMD EPYC 7642

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Intel Xeon w5 2455X

General Parameters

Aug 2019

Release Date

Feb 2023

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Server

Type

Server

Rome

Core Architecture

Sapphire Rapids

AMD Socket SP3

Socket

Intel Socket 4677

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

EPYC (Zen 2 (Rome))

Generation

Xeon W (Sapphire Rapids)

Package

3.8 billions

Transistor Count

-

7 nm

Manufacturing Process

10 nm

225 W

Power Consumption

200 W

-

Peak Operating Temperature

77 °C

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

74 mm²

Die Size

-

CPU Performance

2.4 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

3.2 GHz

3.4 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

4.6 GHz

48

Total Core Count

12

96

Total Thread Count

24

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

24.0

Multiplier

32.0

96 K per core

L1 Cache

80 K per core

512 K per core

L2 Cache

2 MB per core

256 MB shared

L3 Cache

30 MB

No

Unlocked Multiplier

Yes

2

SMP

1

-

AVX-512 FMA Ports

2

Memory Parameters

DDR4-3200

Memory Types

DDR5-4800

-

Max Memory Size

2 TB

8

Max Memory Channels

4

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

4

PCIe Version

5

-

PCIe Lanes

64

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