Intel Xeon E5 2650 vs AMD EPYC 9734

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Intel Xeon E5-2650

AMD EPYC 9734

We compared two server CPUs: Intel Xeon E5 2650 with 8 cores 2GHz and AMD EPYC 9734 with 112 cores 2.2GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

Intel Xeon E5 2650 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 340W)

AMD EPYC 9734 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 3 months late

Higher specification of memory (4800 vs 3)

Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)

Higher base frequency (2.2GHz vs 2GHz)

Larger L3 cache size (256MB vs 20MB)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 32nm)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Intel Xeon E5 2650

512

AMD EPYC 9734 +226%

1673

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Intel Xeon E5 2650

4542

AMD EPYC 9734 +182%

12850

Intel Xeon E5 2650

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AMD EPYC 9734

General Parameters

Mar 2012

Release Date

Jun 2023

Intel

Manufacturer

AMD

Server

Type

Server

Sandy Bridge-EP

Core Architecture

Bergamo

Intel Socket 2011

Socket

AMD Socket SP5

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

Xeon E5 (Sandy Bridge-EP)

Generation

EPYC (Zen 4c (Bergamo))

Package

2.27 billions

Transistor Count

71 billions

32 nm

Manufacturing Process

5 nm

95 W

Power Consumption

340 W

Intel

Foundry

TSMC

435 mm²

Die Size

8x73 mm²

-

I/O Process Size

6 nm

-

I/O Die Size

397 mm²

CPU Performance

2 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.2 GHz

2.8 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3 GHz

8

Total Core Count

112

16

Total Thread Count

224

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

20.0

Multiplier

22.0

64 K per core

L1 Cache

64 KB per core

256 K per core

L2 Cache

1 MB per core

20 MB shared

L3 Cache

256 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

2

SMP

2

Memory Parameters

DDR3

Memory Types

DDR5-4800

4

Max Memory Channels

12

-

Max Memory Bandwidth

460.8 GB/s

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

-

Official Website

AMD EPYC 9734

3

PCIe Version

5

-

PCIe Lanes

128

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