AMD EPYC 9124 vs Intel Xeon E3 1260L

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AMD EPYC 9124

Intel Xeon E3-1260L

We compared two server CPUs: AMD EPYC 9124 with 16 cores 3GHz and Intel Xeon E3 1260L with 4 cores 2.4GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD EPYC 9124 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 7 months late

Higher specification of memory (4800 vs 3)

Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)

Higher base frequency (3GHz vs 2.4GHz)

Larger L3 cache size (64MB vs 8MB)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 32nm)

Intel Xeon E3 1260L 's Advantages

Lower TDP (45W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD EPYC 9124 +214%

1970

Intel Xeon E3 1260L

626

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD EPYC 9124 +782%

16674

Intel Xeon E3 1260L

1890

AMD EPYC 9124

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Intel Xeon E3 1260L

General Parameters

Nov 2022

Release Date

Apr 2011

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Server

Type

Server

Genoa

Core Architecture

Sandy Bridge

AMD Socket SP5

Socket

Intel Socket 1155

N/A

Integrated Graphics

Intel HD 2000

EPYC (Zen 4 (Genoa))

Generation

Xeon E3 (Sandy Bridge)

Package

26.28 billions

Transistor Count

1.16 billions

5 nm

Manufacturing Process

32 nm

200 W

Power Consumption

45 W

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

4x72 mm²

Die Size

216 mm²

6 nm

I/O Process Size

-

397 mm²

I/O Die Size

-

CPU Performance

3 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.4 GHz

3.7 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3.3 GHz

16

Total Core Count

4

32

Total Thread Count

8

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

30.0

Multiplier

24.0

64 K per core

L1 Cache

64 K per core

1 MB per core

L2 Cache

256 K per core

64 MB shared

L3 Cache

8 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

2

SMP

1

Memory Parameters

DDR5-4800

Memory Types

DDR3

12

Max Memory Channels

2

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

5

PCIe Version

3

128

PCIe Lanes

16

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