AMD EPYC 9734 vs Intel Xeon E5 2660

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AMD EPYC 9734 Intel Xeon E5 2660

We compared two server CPUs: AMD EPYC 9734 with 112 cores 2.2GHz and Intel Xeon E5 2660 with 8 cores 2.2GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD EPYC 9734 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 3 months late

Higher specification of memory (DDR5-4800 vs DDR3)

Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)

Larger L3 cache size (256MB vs 20MB)

Intel Xeon E5 2660 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 340W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD EPYC 9734 +107%

1673

Intel Xeon E5 2660

805

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD EPYC 9734 +207%

12850

Intel Xeon E5 2660

4173

AMD EPYC 9734

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Intel Xeon E5 2660

General Parameters

Jun 2023

Release Date

Mar 2012

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Server

Type

Server

Bergamo

Core Architecture

Sandy Bridge-EP

AMD Socket SP5

Socket

Intel Socket 2011

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

EPYC (Zen 4c (Bergamo))

Generation

Xeon E5 (Sandy Bridge-EP)

Package

71 billions

Transistor Count

2.27 billions

5 nm

Manufacturing Process

32 nm

AMD Socket SP5

Socket

Intel Socket 2011

340 W

Power Consumption

95 W

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

8x73 mm²

Die Size

435 mm²

6 nm

I/O Process Size

-

397 mm²

I/O Die Size

-

FC-LGA6096

Package

FC-LGA10

CPU Performance

2.2 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.2 GHz

3 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3 GHz

112

Total Core Count

8

224

Total Thread Count

16

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

22.0

Multiplier

22.0

64 KB per core

L1 Cache

64 K per core

1 MB per core

L2 Cache

256 K per core

256 MB shared

L3 Cache

20 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

2

SMP

2

Memory Parameters

DDR5-4800

Memory Types

DDR3

12

Max Memory Channels

4

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

5

PCIe Version

3

128

PCIe Lanes

-

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