Xeon 6980P vs AMD EPYC 7H12

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Intel Xeon 6980P

AMD EPYC 7H12

We compared two server CPUs: Xeon 6980P with 128 cores 2GHz and AMD EPYC 7H12 with 64 cores 2.6GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

Xeon 6980P 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Higher specification of memory (8800 vs 3200)

Newer PCIe version (5 vs 4)

Larger L3 cache size (504MB vs 256MB)

More modern manufacturing process (5nm vs 7nm)

AMD EPYC 7H12 's Advantages

Higher base frequency (2.6GHz vs 2GHz)

Lower TDP (280W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Xeon 6980P +65%

2015

AMD EPYC 7H12

1215

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Xeon 6980P

8257

AMD EPYC 7H12 +25%

10386

Xeon 6980P

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AMD EPYC 7H12

General Parameters

Sep 2024

Release Date

Sep 2019

Intel

Manufacturer

AMD

Server

Type

Server

Granite Rapids

Core Architecture

Rome

Intel Socket 7529

Socket

AMD Socket SP3

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

Xeon 6(Granite Rapids-AP)

Generation

EPYC (Zen 2 (Rome))

Package

-

Transistor Count

3.8 billions

5 nm

Manufacturing Process

7 nm

500 W

Power Consumption

280 W

95°C

Peak Operating Temperature

-

Intel

Foundry

TSMC

-

Die Size

74 mm²

10 nm

I/O Process Size

-

CPU Performance

128

Performance Cores

-

256

Performance Core Threads

-

2 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.6 GHz

3.9 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3.3 GHz

128

Total Core Count

64

256

Total Thread Count

128

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

20.0

Multiplier

26.0

112 KB per core

L1 Cache

96 K per core

2 MB per core

L2 Cache

512 K per core

504 MB shared

L3 Cache

256 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

2

SMP

2

AVX-512 FMA Ports

-

Memory Parameters

DDR5-6400,MRDIMM-8800

Memory Types

DDR4-3200

3 TB

Max Memory Size

-

12

Max Memory Channels

8

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

Xeon 6980P

Official Website

-

5

PCIe Version

4

96

PCIe Lanes

-

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