Intel Xeon D-2779 vs AMD Epyc 7F72. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Family
  Intel Xeon D AMD Epyc
• CPU group
  Intel Xeon D-2700 AMD Epyc 7002
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Generation
  4 2

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Overclocking
  No No
• Frequency
  2.50 GHz 3.20 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.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No No
• VC-1
  No No
• JPEG
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Epyc 7F72 and Intel Xeon D-2779. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-3200 DDR4-3200
• Max. Memory
  1024 GB
• Memory channels
  4 8
• ECC
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Xeon D-2779 and AMD Epyc 7F72 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  126 W 240 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Xeon D-2779 and Intel Xeon D-2779, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  25.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  -- 192.00 MB
• Architecture
  Ice Lake Rome (Zen 2)
• Technology
  10 nm 7 nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM
• Socket
  BGA 2579 SP3
• Release date
  Q1/2022 Q2/2020