Intel Xeon Gold 5420 vs AMD EPYC 7473X

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Intel Xeon Gold 5420+

AMD EPYC 7473X

We compared two server CPUs: Intel Xeon Gold 5420 with 28 cores 2GHz and AMD EPYC 7473X with 24 cores 2.8GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

Intel Xeon Gold 5420 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Higher specification of memory (4400 vs 3200)

Newer PCIe version (5 vs 4)

Lower TDP (205W vs 240W)

AMD EPYC 7473X 's Advantages

Higher base frequency (2.8GHz vs 2GHz)

Larger L3 cache size (768MB vs 52.5MB)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 10nm)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Intel Xeon Gold 5420 +20%

2145

AMD EPYC 7473X

1786

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Intel Xeon Gold 5420 +11%

17725

AMD EPYC 7473X

15829

Intel Xeon Gold 5420

VS

AMD EPYC 7473X

General Parameters

Jan 2023

Release Date

Mar 2022

Intel

Manufacturer

AMD

Server

Type

Server

Sapphire Rapids

Core Architecture

Milan-X

Intel Socket 4677

Socket

AMD Socket SP3

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

Xeon Gold (Sapphire Rapids-SP)

Generation

EPYC (Zen 3 (Milan))

Package

-

Transistor Count

33.2 billions

10 nm

Manufacturing Process

7 nm

205 W

Power Consumption

240 W

84 °C

Peak Operating Temperature

-

Intel

Foundry

TSMC

-

Die Size

8x81 mm²

-

I/O Process Size

12 nm

-

I/O Die Size

416 mm²

CPU Performance

2 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.8 GHz

4.1 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3.7 GHz

28

Total Core Count

24

56

Total Thread Count

48

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

20.0

Multiplier

28.0

80 K per core

L1 Cache

64 K per core

2 MB per core

L2 Cache

512 K per core

52.5 MB

L3 Cache

768 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

-

Cores per CCD

3

2

SMP

2

AVX-512 FMA Ports

-

Memory Parameters

DDR5-4400

Memory Types

DDR4-3200

8

Max Memory Channels

8

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

5

PCIe Version

4

80

PCIe Lanes

128

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