AMD EPYC 9965 vs Intel Xeon E5 2690

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AMD EPYC 9965

Intel Xeon E5-2690

We compared two server CPUs: AMD EPYC 9965 with 192 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 9965 's Advantages

Released 12 years and 7 months late

Higher specification of memory (6000 vs 3)

Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)

Larger L3 cache size (384MB vs 20MB)

More modern manufacturing process (3nm vs 32nm)

Intel Xeon E5 2690 's Advantages

Higher base frequency (2.9GHz vs 2.25GHz)

Lower TDP (135W vs 500W)

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AMD EPYC 9965

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Intel Xeon E5 2690

General Parameters

Oct 2024

Release Date

Mar 2012

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Server

Type

Server

Turin

Core Architecture

Sandy Bridge-EP

AMD Socket SP5

Socket

Intel Socket 2011

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

EPYC(Zen 5c (Turin))

Generation

Xeon E5 (Sandy Bridge-EP)

Package

Transistor Count

2.27 billions

3 nm

Manufacturing Process

32 nm

500 W

Power Consumption

135 W

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

mm²

Die Size

435 mm²

6 nm

I/O Process Size

-

mm²

I/O Die Size

-

CPU Performance

192

Performance Cores

-

384

Performance Core Threads

-

2.25 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.9 GHz

3.7 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3.8 GHz

192

Total Core Count

8

384

Total Thread Count

16

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

22.5

Multiplier

29.0

80 KB 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

DDR5-6000

Memory Types

DDR3

6 TB

Max Memory Size

-

12

Max Memory Channels

4

576 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

-

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

AMD EPYC 9965

Official Website

-

5

PCIe Version

3

128

PCIe Lanes

-

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