AMD EPYC 7702 vs Intel Xeon Gold 5420

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AMD EPYC 7702

Intel Xeon Gold 5420+

We compared two server CPUs: AMD EPYC 7702 with 64 cores 2GHz and Intel Xeon Gold 5420 with 28 cores 2GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD EPYC 7702 's Advantages

Larger L3 cache size (256MB vs 52.5MB)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 10nm)

Lower TDP (200W vs 205W)

Intel Xeon Gold 5420 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Higher specification of memory (4400 vs 3200)

Newer PCIe version (5 vs 4)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD EPYC 7702

1069

Intel Xeon Gold 5420 +100%

2145

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD EPYC 7702

8594

Intel Xeon Gold 5420 +106%

17725

AMD EPYC 7702

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Intel Xeon Gold 5420

General Parameters

Aug 2019

Release Date

Jan 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 Gold (Sapphire Rapids-SP)

Package

3.8 billions

Transistor Count

-

7 nm

Manufacturing Process

10 nm

200 W

Power Consumption

205 W

-

Peak Operating Temperature

84 °C

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

74 mm²

Die Size

-

CPU Performance

2 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2 GHz

3.35 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

4.1 GHz

64

Total Core Count

28

128

Total Thread Count

56

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

20.0

Multiplier

20.0

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

52.5 MB

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

2

SMP

2

-

AVX-512 FMA Ports

2

Memory Parameters

DDR4-3200

Memory Types

DDR5-4400

8

Max Memory Channels

8

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

4

PCIe Version

5

-

PCIe Lanes

80

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