AMD EPYC 7742 vs Intel Xeon E5 2658 v3

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AMD EPYC 7742

Intel Xeon E5-2658 v3

We compared two server CPUs: AMD EPYC 7742 with 64 cores 2.25GHz and Intel Xeon E5 2658 v3 with 12 cores 2.2GHz . 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 4 years and 11 months late

Higher specification of memory (3200 vs 2133)

Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)

Higher base frequency (2.25GHz vs 2.2GHz)

Larger L3 cache size (256MB vs 30MB)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 22nm)

Intel Xeon E5 2658 v3 's Advantages

Lower TDP (105W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD EPYC 7742

404

Intel Xeon E5 2658 v3 +119%

885

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD EPYC 7742

170

Intel Xeon E5 2658 v3 +3927%

6846

AMD EPYC 7742

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Intel Xeon E5 2658 v3

General Parameters

Aug 2019

Release Date

Sep 2014

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Server

Type

Server

Rome

Core Architecture

Haswell-EP

AMD Socket SP3

Socket

Intel Socket 2011-3

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

EPYC (Zen 2 (Rome))

Generation

Xeon E5 (Haswell-EP)

Package

3.8 billions

Transistor Count

2.6 billions

7 nm

Manufacturing Process

22 nm

225 W

Power Consumption

105 W

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

74 mm²

Die Size

356 mm²

CPU Performance

2.25 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.2 GHz

3.4 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

2.9 GHz

64

Total Core Count

12

128

Total Thread Count

24

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

22.5

Multiplier

22.0

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

30 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

2

SMP

2

Memory Parameters

DDR4-3200

Memory Types

DDR4-2133

8

Max Memory Channels

4

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

4

PCIe Version

3

-

PCIe Lanes

40

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