AMD EPYC 9745 vs Intel Xeon E5 1660 v3

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AMD EPYC 9745

Intel Xeon E5-1660 v3

We compared two server CPUs: AMD EPYC 9745 with 128 cores 2.4GHz and Intel Xeon E5 1660 v3 with 8 cores 3GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD EPYC 9745 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 1 months late

Higher specification of memory (6000 vs 2133)

Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)

Larger L3 cache size (256MB vs 20MB)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 22nm)

Intel Xeon E5 1660 v3 's Advantages

Higher base frequency (3GHz vs 2.4GHz)

Lower TDP (140W vs 400W)

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AMD EPYC 9745

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Intel Xeon E5 1660 v3

General Parameters

Oct 2024

Release Date

Sep 2014

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Server

Type

Server

Turin

Core Architecture

Haswell-EP

AMD Socket SP5

Socket

Intel Socket 2011-3

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

EPYC(Zen 5c (Turin))

Generation

Xeon E5 (Haswell-EP)

Package

Transistor Count

2.6 billions

3 nm

Manufacturing Process

22 nm

400 W

Power Consumption

140 W

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

mm²

Die Size

356 mm²

6 nm

I/O Process Size

-

mm²

I/O Die Size

-

CPU Performance

128

Performance Cores

-

256

Performance Core Threads

-

2.4 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

3 GHz

3.7 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3.5 GHz

128

Total Core Count

8

256

Total Thread Count

16

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

24.0

Multiplier

30.0

80 KB per core

L1 Cache

64 K per core

1 MB per core

L2 Cache

256 K per core

256 MB shared

L3 Cache

20 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

Yes

2

SMP

1

Memory Parameters

DDR5-6000

Memory Types

DDR4-2133

6 TB

Max Memory Size

-

12

Max Memory Channels

4

576 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

-

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

AMD EPYC 9745

Official Website

-

5

PCIe Version

3

128

PCIe Lanes

40

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