Intel Xeon E5 2690 v3 vs AMD EPYC 9254

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Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3

AMD EPYC 9254

We compared two server CPUs: Intel Xeon E5 2690 v3 with 12 cores 2.6GHz and AMD EPYC 9254 with 24 cores 2.9GHz . 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 200W)

AMD EPYC 9254 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Higher specification of memory (4800 vs 2133)

Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)

Higher base frequency (2.9GHz vs 2.6GHz)

Larger L3 cache size (128MB vs 30MB)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 22nm)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Intel Xeon E5 2690 v3

1015

AMD EPYC 9254 +121%

2245

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Intel Xeon E5 2690 v3

6118

AMD EPYC 9254 +197%

18187

Intel Xeon E5 2690 v3

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AMD EPYC 9254

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

26.28 billions

22 nm

Manufacturing Process

5 nm

135 W

Power Consumption

200 W

Intel

Foundry

TSMC

356 mm²

Die Size

4x72 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

2.9 GHz

3.5 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

4.15 GHz

12

Total Core Count

24

Total Thread Count

48

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

26.0

Multiplier

29.0

64 K per core

L1 Cache

64 K per core

256 K per core

L2 Cache

1 MB per core

30 MB shared

L3 Cache

128 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

2

SMP

2

Memory Parameters

DDR4-2133

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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