Intel Xeon E5 2690 v3 vs AMD EPYC 7F72

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Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3

AMD EPYC 7F72

We compared two server CPUs: Intel Xeon E5 2690 v3 with 12 cores 2.6GHz and AMD EPYC 7F72 with 24 cores 3.2GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

Intel Xeon E5 2690 v3 's Advantages

Lower TDP (135W vs 240W)

AMD EPYC 7F72 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

Higher specification of memory (3200 vs 2133)

Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)

Higher base frequency (3.2GHz vs 2.6GHz)

Larger L3 cache size (192MB vs 30MB)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 22nm)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Intel Xeon E5 2690 v3

1015

AMD EPYC 7F72 +43%

1459

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Intel Xeon E5 2690 v3

6118

AMD EPYC 7F72 +76%

10782

Intel Xeon E5 2690 v3

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AMD EPYC 7F72

General Parameters

Sep 2014

Release Date

Apr 2020

Intel

Manufacturer

AMD

Server

Type

Server

Haswell-EP

Core Architecture

Rome

Intel Socket 2011-3

Socket

AMD Socket SP3

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

Xeon E5 (Haswell-EP)

Generation

EPYC (Zen 2 (Rome))

Package

2.6 billions

Transistor Count

3.8 billions

22 nm

Manufacturing Process

7 nm

135 W

Power Consumption

240 W

Intel

Foundry

TSMC

356 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

CPU Performance

2.6 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

3.2 GHz

3.5 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3.7 GHz

12

Total Core Count

24

Total Thread Count

48

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

26.0

Multiplier

32.0

64 K per core

L1 Cache

96 K per core

256 K per core

L2 Cache

512 K per core

30 MB shared

L3 Cache

192 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

2

SMP

2

Memory Parameters

DDR4-2133

Memory Types

DDR4-3200

4

Max Memory Channels

8

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

3

PCIe Version

4

40

PCIe Lanes

-

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