AMD EPYC 7742 vs Intel Xeon E5 2609

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AMD EPYC 7742

Intel Xeon E5-2609

We compared two server CPUs: AMD EPYC 7742 with 64 cores 2.25GHz and Intel Xeon E5 2609 with 4 cores 2.4GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD EPYC 7742 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Higher specification of memory (3200 vs 3)

Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)

Larger L3 cache size (256MB vs 10MB)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 32nm)

Intel Xeon E5 2609 's Advantages

Higher base frequency (2.4GHz vs 2.25GHz)

Lower TDP (80W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD EPYC 7742

404

Intel Xeon E5 2609

408

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD EPYC 7742

170

Intel Xeon E5 2609 +1136%

2102

AMD EPYC 7742

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Intel Xeon E5 2609

General Parameters

Aug 2019

Release Date

Mar 2012

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Server

Type

Server

Rome

Core Architecture

Sandy Bridge-EP

AMD Socket SP3

Socket

Intel Socket 2011

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

EPYC (Zen 2 (Rome))

Generation

Xeon E5 (Sandy Bridge-EP)

Package

3.8 billions

Transistor Count

1.27 billions

7 nm

Manufacturing Process

32 nm

225 W

Power Consumption

80 W

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

74 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

CPU Performance

2.25 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.4 GHz

3.4 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

0

64

Total Core Count

4

128

Total Thread Count

4

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

22.5

Multiplier

24.0

96 K per core

L1 Cache

64 K per core

512 K per core

L2 Cache

256 K per core

256 MB shared

L3 Cache

10 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

2

SMP

2

Memory Parameters

DDR4-3200

Memory Types

DDR3

8

Max Memory Channels

4

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

4

PCIe Version

3

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