AMD EPYC 9754 vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  AMD EPYC 9004 Intel Xeon E5 v3
• Family
  AMD EPYC Intel Xeon E5
• Generation
  4 5
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Successor
  - Intel Xeon E5-2687W v4

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

• Base Frequency
  2.25 GHz 3.1 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Core Configuration
  128x Zen 4c -
• CPU Cores
  128 10
• CPU Threads
  256 20
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.1 GHz 3.5 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (128 Cores)
  3.1 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (10 Cores)
  - 3.3 GHz

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 no iGPU
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo

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

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

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 and AMD EPYC 9754. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Max. Memory
  6144 GB -
• Memory Bandwidth
  461 GB/s -
• Memory channels
  12 4
• Memory type
  DDR5-4800 DDR4-2133
• PCIe
  5.0 x 128 -
• PCIe lanes
  - 40
• PCIe version
  - 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD EPYC 9754 and Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3 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 / PBP, legacy combined label)
  360 W -
• TDP down
  320 W -
• TDP up
  400 W -
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  - 160 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD EPYC 9754 and Intel Xeon E5-2687W v3, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Bergamo (Zen 4c) Haswell E
• Chip design
  Chiplet -
• Documents
  Technical data sheet -
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512, BFLOAT16, VNNI SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  256 MB 25 MB
• Operating systems
  Windows Server 2022, Linux, Windows 11 -
• Release date
  Q2/2023 Q3/2014
• Release price
  11900 $ -
• Socket
  SP5 LGA 2011-3
• Technology
  5 nm 22 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d