AMD EPYC 9634 vs Intel Xeon E5 2690

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AMD EPYC 9634

Intel Xeon E5-2690

We compared two server CPUs: AMD EPYC 9634 with 84 cores 2.25GHz and Intel Xeon E5 2690 with 8 cores 2.9GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD EPYC 9634 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 8 months late

Higher specification of memory (4800 vs 3)

Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)

Larger L3 cache size (384MB vs 20MB)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 32nm)

Intel Xeon E5 2690 's Advantages

Higher base frequency (2.9GHz vs 2.25GHz)

Lower TDP (135W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD EPYC 9634 +16%

1262

Intel Xeon E5 2690

1084

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD EPYC 9634

5595

Intel Xeon E5 2690 +70%

9549

AMD EPYC 9634

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Intel Xeon E5 2690

General Parameters

Nov 2022

Release Date

Mar 2012

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Server

Type

Server

Genoa

Core Architecture

Sandy Bridge-EP

AMD Socket SP5

Socket

Intel Socket 2011

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

EPYC (Zen 4 (Genoa))

Generation

Xeon E5 (Sandy Bridge-EP)

Package

78.84 billions

Transistor Count

2.27 billions

5 nm

Manufacturing Process

32 nm

290 W

Power Consumption

135 W

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

12x72 mm²

Die Size

435 mm²

6 nm

I/O Process Size

-

397 mm²

I/O Die Size

-

CPU Performance

2.25 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.9 GHz

3.7 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3.8 GHz

84

Total Core Count

8

168

Total Thread Count

16

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

22.5

Multiplier

29.0

64 K per core

L1 Cache

64 K per core

1 MB per core

L2 Cache

256 K per core

384 MB shared

L3 Cache

20 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

2

SMP

2

Memory Parameters

DDR5-4800

Memory Types

DDR3

12

Max Memory Channels

4

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

5

PCIe Version

3

128

PCIe Lanes

-

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