AMD Epyc 7542 vs Intel Xeon Silver 4314. Specifications

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  AMD Epyc 7002 Intel Xeon Silver 4300
• Family
  AMD Epyc Intel Xeon Silver
• Generation
  2 3
• Predecessor
  - No
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Successor
  - No

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  2.9 GHz 2.4 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  32 16
• CPU Threads
  64 32
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes, SMT
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.4 GHz 3.4 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (32 Cores)
  3.2 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  - No turbo

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  no iGPU -
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo -

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No -
• H.264 / AVC
  No -
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No -
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No -
• JPEG
  No -
• VC-1
  No -
• VP8
  No -
• VP9
  No -

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Xeon Silver 4314 and AMD Epyc 7542. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Max. Memory
  - 6144 GB
• Memory channels
  8 8
• Memory type
  DDR4-3200 DDR4-2666
• PCIe lanes
  128 -
• PCIe version
  4.0 -
• PCIe
  - 4 x 64

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Epyc 7542 and Intel Xeon Silver 4314 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  - 100 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  225 W 135 W
• TDP (PL2)
  - No
• TDP down
  - No
• TDP up
  - No

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Epyc 7542 and Intel Xeon Silver 4314, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Rome (Zen 2) Ice Lake
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
• L2-Cache
  - No
• L3-Cache
  128 MB 24 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2019 Q2/2021
• Socket
  SP3 LGA 4189
• Technology
  7 nm 10 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d