Intel Xeon E5 2640 v3 vs AMD EPYC 9654

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Intel Xeon E5-2640 v3

AMD EPYC 9654

We compared two server CPUs: Intel Xeon E5 2640 v3 with 8 cores 2.6GHz and AMD EPYC 9654 with 96 cores 2.4GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

Intel Xeon E5 2640 v3 's Advantages

Higher base frequency (2.6GHz vs 2.4GHz)

Lower TDP (90W vs 360W)

AMD EPYC 9654 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Higher specification of memory (4800 vs 1866)

Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)

Larger L3 cache size (384MB vs 20MB)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 22nm)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Intel Xeon E5 2640 v3

800

AMD EPYC 9654 +148%

1984

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Intel Xeon E5 2640 v3

3177

AMD EPYC 9654 +527%

19940

Blender

Intel Xeon E5 2640 v3

112

AMD EPYC 9654 +2291%

2678

Intel Xeon E5 2640 v3

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AMD EPYC 9654

General Parameters

Sep 2014

Release Date

Nov 2022

Intel

Manufacturer

AMD

Server

Type

Server

Haswell-EP

Core Architecture

Genoa

Intel Socket 2011-3

Socket

AMD Socket SP5

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

Xeon E5 (Haswell-EP)

Generation

EPYC (Zen 4 (Genoa))

Package

2.6 billions

Transistor Count

78.84 billions

22 nm

Manufacturing Process

5 nm

90 W

Power Consumption

360 W

Intel

Foundry

TSMC

356 mm²

Die Size

12x72 mm²

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I/O Process Size

6 nm

-

I/O Die Size

397 mm²

CPU Performance

2.6 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.4 GHz

3.4 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3.7 GHz

8

Total Core Count

96

16

Total Thread Count

192

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

26.0

Multiplier

24.0

64 K per core

L1 Cache

64 K per core

256 K per core

L2 Cache

1 MB per core

20 MB shared

L3 Cache

384 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

2

SMP

2

Memory Parameters

DDR4-1866

Memory Types

DDR5-4800

4

Max Memory Channels

12

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

3

PCIe Version

5

40

PCIe Lanes

128

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