AMD EPYC 9655P vs Xeon L5420
We compared two server CPUs: AMD EPYC 9655P with 96 cores 2.6GHz and Xeon L5420 with 4 cores 2.5GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.
Main Differences
AMD EPYC 9655P 's Advantages
Released 16 years and 7 months late
Higher specification of memory (6000 vs 3)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 2)
Higher base frequency (2.6GHz vs 2.5GHz)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 45nm)
Xeon L5420 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 400W)
Score
Benchmark
Geekbench 6 Single Core
AMD EPYC 9655P
+663%
2831
Xeon L5420
371
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
AMD EPYC 9655P
+2459%
28414
Xeon L5420
1110
General Parameters
Oct 2024
Release Date
Mar 2008
AMD
Manufacturer
Intel
Server
Type
Server
Turin
Core Architecture
Harpertown
AMD Socket SP5
Socket
Intel Socket 771
N/A
Integrated Graphics
N/A
EPYC(Zen 5 (Turin))
Generation
Xeon (Harpertown)
Package
99.78 billions
Transistor Count
0.82 billions
4 nm
Manufacturing Process
45 nm
400 W
Power Consumption
50 W
TSMC
Foundry
Intel
12x70.6 mm²
Die Size
2x107 mm²
6 nm
I/O Process Size
-
mm²
I/O Die Size
-
CPU Performance
96
Performance Cores
-
192
Performance Core Threads
-
2.6 GHz
Performance Core Base Frequency
2.5 GHz
4.5 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency
0
96
Total Core Count
4
192
Total Thread Count
4
100 MHz
Bus Frequency
333 MHz
26.0
Multiplier
7.5
80 KB per core
L1 Cache
64 KB per core
1 MB per core
L2 Cache
6 MB per die
384 MB shared
L3 Cache
-
No
Unlocked Multiplier
No
1
SMP
2
Memory Parameters
DDR5-6000
Memory Types
DDR2, DDR3
Depends on motherboard
6 TB
Max Memory Size
-
12
Max Memory Channels
2
576 GB/s
Max Memory Bandwidth
-
Yes
ECC Memory Support
Yes
