AMD EPYC 7742 vs Intel Xeon Gold 6434

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AMD EPYC 7742

Intel Xeon Gold 6434

We compared two server CPUs: AMD EPYC 7742 with 64 cores 2.25GHz and Intel Xeon Gold 6434 with 8 cores 3.7GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD EPYC 7742 's Advantages

Larger L3 cache size (256MB vs 22.5MB)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 10nm)

Intel Xeon Gold 6434 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

Higher specification of memory (4800 vs 3200)

Newer PCIe version (5 vs 4)

Higher base frequency (3.7GHz vs 2.25GHz)

Lower TDP (195W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD EPYC 7742

404

Intel Xeon Gold 6434 +428%

2135

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD EPYC 7742

170

Intel Xeon Gold 6434 +7516%

12948

AMD EPYC 7742

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Intel Xeon Gold 6434

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

225 W

Power Consumption

195 W

-

Peak Operating Temperature

64 °C

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

74 mm²

Die Size

-

CPU Performance

2.25 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

3.7 GHz

3.4 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

4.1 GHz

64

Total Core Count

8

128

Total Thread Count

16

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

22.5

Multiplier

37.0

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

22.5 MB

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

2

SMP

2

-

AVX-512 FMA Ports

2

Memory Parameters

DDR4-3200

Memory Types

DDR5-4800

-

Max Memory Size

4 TB

8

Max Memory Channels

8

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

4

PCIe Version

5

-

PCIe Lanes

80

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