AMD EPYC 9655P vs Intel Xeon E5 2640 v3
We compared two server CPUs: AMD EPYC 9655P with 96 cores 2.6GHz and Intel Xeon E5 2640 v3 with 8 cores 2.6GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.
Main Differences
AMD EPYC 9655P 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 1 months late
Higher specification of memory (6000 vs 1866)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3)
Larger L3 cache size (384MB vs 20MB)
More modern manufacturing process (4nm vs 22nm)
Intel Xeon E5 2640 v3 's Advantages
Lower TDP (90W vs 400W)
Score
Benchmark
Geekbench 6 Single Core
AMD EPYC 9655P
+253%
2831
Intel Xeon E5 2640 v3
800
Geekbench 6 Multi Core
AMD EPYC 9655P
+794%
28414
Intel Xeon E5 2640 v3
3177
General Parameters
Oct 2024
Release Date
Sep 2014
AMD
Manufacturer
Intel
Server
Type
Server
Turin
Core Architecture
Haswell-EP
AMD Socket SP5
Socket
Intel Socket 2011-3
N/A
Integrated Graphics
N/A
EPYC(Zen 5 (Turin))
Generation
Xeon E5 (Haswell-EP)
Package
99.78 billions
Transistor Count
2.6 billions
4 nm
Manufacturing Process
22 nm
400 W
Power Consumption
90 W
TSMC
Foundry
Intel
12x70.6 mm²
Die Size
356 mm²
6 nm
I/O Process Size
-
mm²
I/O Die Size
-
CPU Performance
96
Performance Cores
-
192
Performance Core Threads
-
2.6 GHz
Performance Core Base Frequency
2.6 GHz
4.5 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency
3.4 GHz
96
Total Core Count
8
192
Total Thread Count
16
100 MHz
Bus Frequency
100 MHz
26.0
Multiplier
26.0
80 KB per core
L1 Cache
64 K per core
1 MB per core
L2 Cache
256 K per core
384 MB shared
L3 Cache
20 MB shared
No
Unlocked Multiplier
No
1
SMP
2
Memory Parameters
DDR5-6000
Memory Types
DDR4-1866
6 TB
Max Memory Size
-
12
Max Memory Channels
4
576 GB/s
Max Memory Bandwidth
-
Yes
ECC Memory Support
Yes
