AMD EPYC 9654 vs Intel Xeon E5 2420 v2

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AMD EPYC 9654

Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2

We compared two server CPUs: AMD EPYC 9654 with 96 cores 2.4GHz and Intel Xeon E5 2420 v2 with 6 cores 2.2GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD EPYC 9654 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 2 months late

Higher specification of memory (4800 vs 3)

Higher base frequency (2.4GHz vs 2.2GHz)

Larger L3 cache size (384MB vs 15MB)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 22nm)

Intel Xeon E5 2420 v2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (80W vs 360W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD EPYC 9654 +307%

1984

Intel Xeon E5 2420 v2

487

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD EPYC 9654 +748%

19940

Intel Xeon E5 2420 v2

2350

AMD EPYC 9654

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Intel Xeon E5 2420 v2

General Parameters

Nov 2022

Release Date

Sep 2013

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Server

Type

Server

Genoa

Core Architecture

Ivy Bridge-EN

AMD Socket SP5

Socket

Intel Socket 1356

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

EPYC (Zen 4 (Genoa))

Generation

Xeon E5 (Ivy Bridge-EN)

Package

78.84 billions

Transistor Count

1.4 billions

5 nm

Manufacturing Process

22 nm

360 W

Power Consumption

80 W

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

12x72 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

6 nm

I/O Process Size

-

397 mm²

I/O Die Size

-

CPU Performance

2.4 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.2 GHz

3.7 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

0

96

Total Core Count

6

192

Total Thread Count

12

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

24.0

Multiplier

22.0

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

15 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

2

SMP

2

Memory Parameters

DDR5-4800

Memory Types

DDR3

12

Max Memory Channels

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

5

PCIe Version

-

128

PCIe Lanes

-

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