Intel Xeon E5 2686 v3 vs AMD EPYC 9655

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Intel Xeon E5-2686 v3

AMD EPYC 9655

We compared two server CPUs: Intel Xeon E5 2686 v3 with 18 cores 2GHz and AMD EPYC 9655 with 96 cores 2.6GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

Intel Xeon E5 2686 v3 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 400W)

AMD EPYC 9655 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 1 months late

Higher specification of memory (6000 vs 2133)

Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)

Higher base frequency (2.6GHz vs 2GHz)

Larger L3 cache size (384MB vs 45MB)

More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 22nm)

Score

Intel Xeon E5 2686 v3

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AMD EPYC 9655

General Parameters

Sep 2014

Release Date

Oct 2024

Intel

Manufacturer

AMD

Server

Type

Server

Haswell-EP

Core Architecture

Turin

Intel Socket 2011-3

Socket

AMD Socket SP5

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

Xeon E5 (Haswell-EP)

Generation

EPYC(Zen 5 (Turin))

Package

2.6 billions

Transistor Count

99.78 billions

22 nm

Manufacturing Process

4 nm

120 W

Power Consumption

400 W

83 °C

Peak Operating Temperature

-

Intel

Foundry

TSMC

356 mm²

Die Size

12x70.6 mm²

-

I/O Process Size

6 nm

-

I/O Die Size

mm²

CPU Performance

-

Performance Cores

96

-

Performance Core Threads

192

2 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.6 GHz

3.5 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

4.5 GHz

18

Total Core Count

96

36

Total Thread Count

192

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

20.0

Multiplier

26.0

64 K per core

L1 Cache

80 KB per core

256 K per core

L2 Cache

1 MB per core

45 MB shared

L3 Cache

384 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

2

SMP

2

Memory Parameters

DDR3,DDR4-2133

Memory Types

DDR5-6000

-

Max Memory Size

6 TB

4

Max Memory Channels

12

-

Max Memory Bandwidth

576 GB/s

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

-

Official Website

AMD EPYC 9655

3

PCIe Version

5

40

PCIe Lanes

128

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