AMD EPYC 7F72 vs Intel Xeon E5 1660 v2

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AMD EPYC 7F72

Intel Xeon E5-1660 v2

We compared two server CPUs: AMD EPYC 7F72 with 24 cores 3.2GHz and Intel Xeon E5 1660 v2 with 6 cores 3.7GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD EPYC 7F72 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Higher specification of memory (3200 vs 1866)

Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)

Larger L3 cache size (192MB vs 15MB)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 22nm)

Intel Xeon E5 1660 v2 's Advantages

Higher base frequency (3.7GHz vs 3.2GHz)

Lower TDP (130W vs 240W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD EPYC 7F72 +78%

1459

Intel Xeon E5 1660 v2

818

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD EPYC 7F72 +178%

10782

Intel Xeon E5 1660 v2

3870

AMD EPYC 7F72

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Intel Xeon E5 1660 v2

General Parameters

Apr 2020

Release Date

Sep 2013

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Server

Type

Server

Rome

Core Architecture

Ivy Bridge-E

AMD Socket SP3

Socket

Intel Socket 2011

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

EPYC (Zen 2 (Rome))

Generation

Xeon E5 (Ivy Bridge-E)

Package

3.8 billions

Transistor Count

1.86 billions

7 nm

Manufacturing Process

22 nm

240 W

Power Consumption

130 W

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Peak Operating Temperature

70 °C

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

74 mm²

Die Size

257 mm²

CPU Performance

3.2 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

3.7 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

4 GHz

24

Total Core Count

6

48

Total Thread Count

12

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

32.0

Multiplier

37.0

96 K per core

L1 Cache

64 K per core

512 K per core

L2 Cache

256 K per core

192 MB shared

L3 Cache

15 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

Yes

2

SMP

1

Memory Parameters

DDR4-3200

Memory Types

DDR3-1866

8

Max Memory Channels

4

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

4

PCIe Version

3

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