Intel Xeon E5 1660 v3 vs AMD EPYC 9734

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We compared two server CPUs: Intel Xeon E5 1660 v3 with 8 cores 3GHz and AMD EPYC 9734 with 112 cores 2.2GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

Intel Xeon E5 1660 v3 's Advantages

Higher base frequency (3GHz vs 2.2GHz)

Lower TDP (140W vs 340W)

AMD EPYC 9734 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Higher specification of memory (DDR5-4800 vs DDR4-2133)

Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)

Larger L3 cache size (256MB vs 20MB)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

Intel Xeon E5 1660 v3

1458

AMD EPYC 9734 +14%

1673

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

Intel Xeon E5 1660 v3

8915

AMD EPYC 9734 +44%

12850

Intel Xeon E5 1660 v3

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AMD EPYC 9734

General Parameters

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jun 2023

Intel

Manufacturer

AMD

Server

Type

Server

Haswell-EP

Core Architecture

Bergamo

Intel Socket 2011-3

Socket

AMD Socket SP5

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

Xeon E5 (Haswell-EP)

Generation

EPYC (Zen 4c (Bergamo))

Package

2.6 billions

Transistor Count

71 billions

22 nm

Manufacturing Process

5 nm

Intel Socket 2011-3

Socket

AMD Socket SP5

140 W

Power Consumption

340 W

Intel

Foundry

TSMC

356 mm²

Die Size

8x73 mm²

-

I/O Process Size

6 nm

-

I/O Die Size

397 mm²

-

Package

FC-LGA6096

CPU Performance

3 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.2 GHz

3.5 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3 GHz

8

Total Core Count

112

16

Total Thread Count

224

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

30.0

Multiplier

22.0

64 K per core

L1 Cache

64 KB per core

256 K per core

L2 Cache

1 MB per core

20 MB shared

L3 Cache

256 MB shared

Yes

Unlocked Multiplier

No

1

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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