AMD EPYC 7742 vs Intel Xeon E5 2689

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AMD EPYC 7742

Intel Xeon E5-2689

We compared two server CPUs: AMD EPYC 7742 with 64 cores 2.25GHz and Intel Xeon E5 2689 with 8 cores 2.6GHz . 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 1600)

Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)

Larger L3 cache size (256MB vs 20MB)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 32nm)

Intel Xeon E5 2689 's Advantages

Higher base frequency (2.6GHz vs 2.25GHz)

Lower TDP (115W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD EPYC 7742

404

Intel Xeon E5 2689 +38%

560

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD EPYC 7742

170

Intel Xeon E5 2689 +1858%

3329

AMD EPYC 7742

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Intel Xeon E5 2689

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

2.27 billions

7 nm

Manufacturing Process

32 nm

225 W

Power Consumption

115 W

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

74 mm²

Die Size

435 mm²

CPU Performance

2.25 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.6 GHz

3.4 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3.6 GHz

64

Total Core Count

8

128

Total Thread Count

16

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

22.5

Multiplier

26.0

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

20 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

2

SMP

2

Memory Parameters

DDR4-3200

Memory Types

DDR3-1600

8

Max Memory Channels

4

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

4

PCIe Version

3

-

PCIe Lanes

40

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