AMD EPYC 7742 vs Intel Xeon E5503

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AMD EPYC 7742

Intel Xeon E5503

We compared two server CPUs: AMD EPYC 7742 with 64 cores 2.25GHz and Intel Xeon E5503 with 2 cores 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 9 years and 5 months late

Higher specification of memory (3200 vs 3)

Newer PCIe version (4 vs 2)

Higher base frequency (2.25GHz vs 2GHz)

Larger L3 cache size (256MB vs 4MB)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 45nm)

Intel Xeon E5503 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD EPYC 7742 +81%

404

Intel Xeon E5503

223

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD EPYC 7742

170

Intel Xeon E5503 +294%

670

AMD EPYC 7742

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Intel Xeon E5503

General Parameters

Aug 2019

Release Date

Mar 2010

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Server

Type

Server

Rome

Core Architecture

Gainestown

AMD Socket SP3

Socket

Intel Socket 1366

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

EPYC (Zen 2 (Rome))

Generation

Xeon (Gainestown)

Package

3.8 billions

Transistor Count

0.731 billions

7 nm

Manufacturing Process

45 nm

225 W

Power Consumption

80 W

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

74 mm²

Die Size

263 mm²

CPU Performance

2.25 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2 GHz

3.4 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

0

64

Total Core Count

2

128

Total Thread Count

2

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

133 MHz

22.5

Multiplier

15.0

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

4 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

2

SMP

2

Memory Parameters

DDR4-3200

Memory Types

DDR3

8

Max Memory Channels

3

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

4

PCIe Version

2

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