AMD EPYC 9124 vs Xeon E7 8850

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AMD EPYC 9124

Intel Xeon E7-8850

We compared two server CPUs: AMD EPYC 9124 with 16 cores 3GHz and Xeon E7 8850 with 10 cores 2GHz . 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 1333)

Higher base frequency (3GHz vs 2GHz)

Larger L3 cache size (64MB vs 24MB)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 32nm)

Xeon E7 8850 's Advantages

Lower TDP (130W vs 200W)

Score

AMD EPYC 9124

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Xeon E7 8850

General Parameters

Nov 2022

Release Date

Apr 2011

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Server

Type

Server

Genoa

Core Architecture

Westmere-EX

AMD Socket SP5

Socket

Intel Socket 1567

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

EPYC (Zen 4 (Genoa))

Generation

Xeon E7(Westmere-EX)

Package

26.28 billions

Transistor Count

2.6 billions

5 nm

Manufacturing Process

32 nm

200 W

Power Consumption

130 W

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

4x72 mm²

Die Size

513 mm²

6 nm

I/O Process Size

-

397 mm²

I/O Die Size

-

CPU Performance

3 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2 GHz

3.7 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

2.4 GHz

16

Total Core Count

10

32

Total Thread Count

20

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

133 MHz

30.0

Multiplier

15.0

64 K per core

L1 Cache

64 KB per core

1 MB per core

L2 Cache

256 KB per core

64 MB shared

L3 Cache

24 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

2

SMP

8

Memory Parameters

DDR5-4800

Memory Types

DDR3-1333

12

Max Memory Channels

4

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

5

PCIe Version

-

128

PCIe Lanes

-

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