Intel Xeon Gold 5420 vs AMD EPYC 7551

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Intel Xeon Gold 5420+

AMD EPYC 7551

We compared two server CPUs: Intel Xeon Gold 5420 with 28 cores 2GHz and AMD EPYC 7551 with 32 cores 2GHz . 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 5 years and 7 months late

Higher specification of memory (4400 vs 2666)

Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)

More modern manufacturing process (10nm vs 14nm)

AMD EPYC 7551 's Advantages

Larger L3 cache size (64MB vs 52.5MB)

Lower TDP (180W vs 205W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Intel Xeon Gold 5420 +141%

2145

AMD EPYC 7551

890

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Intel Xeon Gold 5420 +224%

17725

AMD EPYC 7551

5459

Intel Xeon Gold 5420

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AMD EPYC 7551

General Parameters

Jan 2023

Release Date

Jun 2017

Intel

Manufacturer

AMD

Server

Type

Server

Sapphire Rapids

Core Architecture

Naples

Intel Socket 4677

Socket

AMD Socket SP3

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

Xeon Gold (Sapphire Rapids-SP)

Generation

EPYC (Zen (Naples))

Package

-

Transistor Count

4.8 billions

10 nm

Manufacturing Process

14 nm

205 W

Power Consumption

180 W

84 °C

Peak Operating Temperature

81 °C

Intel

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

-

Die Size

213 mm²

CPU Performance

2 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2 GHz

4.1 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3 GHz

28

Total Core Count

32

56

Total Thread Count

64

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

20.0

Multiplier

20.0

80 K per core

L1 Cache

96 K per core

2 MB per core

L2 Cache

512 K per core

52.5 MB

L3 Cache

64 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

Yes

2

SMP

2

AVX-512 FMA Ports

-

Memory Parameters

DDR5-4400

Memory Types

DDR4-2666

8

Max Memory Channels

8

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

5

PCIe Version

3

80

PCIe Lanes

-

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