AMD EPYC 7F72 vs Intel Xeon E3 1240L v3

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We compared two server CPUs: AMD EPYC 7F72 with 24 cores 3.2GHz and Intel Xeon E3 1240L v3 with 4 cores 2GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD EPYC 7F72 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Higher specification of memory (DDR4-3200 vs DDR3-1600)

Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3)

Higher base frequency (3.2GHz vs 2GHz)

Larger L3 cache size (192MB vs 8MB)

Intel Xeon E3 1240L v3 's Advantages

Lower TDP (25W vs 240W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD EPYC 7F72 +63%

1459

Intel Xeon E3 1240L v3

895

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD EPYC 7F72 +303%

10782

Intel Xeon E3 1240L v3

2669

AMD EPYC 7F72

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Intel Xeon E3 1240L v3

General Parameters

Apr 2020

Release Date

May 2014

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Server

Type

Server

Rome

Core Architecture

Haswell-WS

AMD Socket SP3

Socket

Intel Socket 1150

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

EPYC (Zen 2 (Rome))

Generation

Xeon E3 (Haswell-WS)

Package

3.8 billions

Transistor Count

1.4 billions

7 nm

Manufacturing Process

22 nm

AMD Socket SP3

Socket

Intel Socket 1150

240 W

Power Consumption

25 W

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

74 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

FCLGA-4094

Package

FC-LGA12C

CPU Performance

3.2 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2 GHz

3.7 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3 GHz

24

Total Core Count

4

48

Total Thread Count

8

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

32.0

Multiplier

20.0

96 K per core

L1 Cache

64 K per core

512 K per core

L2 Cache

256 K per core

192 MB shared

L3 Cache

8 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

2

SMP

1

Memory Parameters

DDR4-3200

Memory Types

DDR3-1600

8

Max Memory Channels

2

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

4

PCIe Version

3

-

PCIe Lanes

16

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