AMD EPYC 7F72 vs Intel Xeon E5 2470

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AMD EPYC 7F72 Intel Xeon E5 2470

We compared two server CPUs: AMD EPYC 7F72 with 24 cores 3.2GHz and Intel Xeon E5 2470 with 8 cores 2.3GHz . 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 7 years and 11 months late

Higher specification of memory (DDR4-3200 vs DDR3)

Higher base frequency (3.2GHz vs 2.3GHz)

Larger L3 cache size (192MB vs 20MB)

Intel Xeon E5 2470 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 240W)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD EPYC 7F72 +151%

1459

Intel Xeon E5 2470

580

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD EPYC 7F72 +244%

10782

Intel Xeon E5 2470

3131

AMD EPYC 7F72

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Intel Xeon E5 2470

General Parameters

Apr 2020

Release Date

May 2012

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Server

Type

Server

Rome

Core Architecture

Sandy Bridge-EN

AMD Socket SP3

Socket

Intel Socket 1356

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

EPYC (Zen 2 (Rome))

Generation

Xeon E5 (Sandy Bridge-EN)

Package

3.8 billions

Transistor Count

1.27 billions

7 nm

Manufacturing Process

32 nm

AMD Socket SP3

Socket

Intel Socket 1356

240 W

Power Consumption

95 W

TSMC

Foundry

Intel

74 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

FCLGA-4094

Package

-

CPU Performance

3.2 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.3 GHz

3.7 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3.1 GHz

24

Total Core Count

8

48

Total Thread Count

16

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

32.0

Multiplier

23.0

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

20 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

No

2

SMP

2

Memory Parameters

DDR4-3200

Memory Types

DDR3

8

Max Memory Channels

Yes

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Miscellaneous

4

PCIe Version

-

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